[MSHARED-162] actTransitively wildcard patterns can fail on pattern-based filters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: maven-common-artifact-filters-1.2
• Fix Version/s: maven-common-artifact-filters-1.3
• Component/s: maven-common-artifact-filters
• Assignee: John Dennis Casey
• Reporter: John Dennis Casey
• Created: 10/Sep/10 15:56
• Updated: 04/Oct/10 12:04
• Resolved: 04/Oct/10 12:04

Description

When a pattern is matched against the dependency trail of an artifact in the PatternInclusionArtifactFilter and PatternExclusionArtifactFilter, the whole trail is considered at once (using a comma-separated list of items in the trail). This means that only particular wildcard patterns will ever match, and it should be virtually impossible to use an exact match.

A far better approach would be to iterate through the dependency trail and try to match the patterns against each dep-trail item separately, to avoid problems of detecting the boundaries between items during the pattern-matching process.