[MSITE-422] Links being "relativized" incorrectly.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.1
• Component/s: relative links
• Assignee: Lukas Theussl
• Reporter: Jason Smith
• Created: 08/Aug/09 09:45
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 18:15
• Resolved: 19/Dec/10 05:58

Description

This also appears to be broken in 2.1-SNAPSHOT as the original entry date of this JIRA. It was first discovered in 2.0, and also affects 2.0.1.

I have the following links in my site.xml. This is a multi-module project, but this affects the top-level (parent) project documentation.
<links>
<item name="Groovy" href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/COM+Scripting/.." />
<item name="Scriptom Wiki" href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/COM+Scripting" />
</links>

Here is the HTML produced:
<a href="../">Groovy</a> |
<a href="http://groovy.codehaus.org/COM+Scripting" class="externalLink">Scriptom Wiki</a>

The first link is relativized. Incorrectly. My site-distribution is:

<site>
<id>codehaus.org.snapshots</id>
<name>Groovy Website</name>
<url>dav:https://dav.codehaus.org/groovy/modules/scriptom/SNAPSHOT/${project.version}</url>
</site>

Technically, the relative path should be "../../../../..". It would have worked just fine if the HREF were "http://groovy.codehaus.org/".

Is it actually necessary to complicate the <links/> by relativizing the paths whenever possible, or would it be simpler just to pass the original HREF through unmodified?

Issue Links

• is superceded by: MSITE-423 <links> item hrefs not relativised properly when inherited by child modules