[SUREFIRE-1250] Regex testcase filtering: exception when hashmark is regex-quoted

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.19.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.20
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Zoltan Haindrich
• Created: 22/May/16 12:30
• Updated: 23/Aug/16 15:06
• Resolved: 22/Aug/16 23:24

Description

i've been using regex to select which tests to run...and i've got some wierd exceptions when executing

mvn test "-Dtest=%regex[.*\Q#\E.*]"

executing the above command results in:

java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: 
Illegal/unsupported escape sequence near index 1
\E.*
 ^
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:364)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeWithRerun(JUnit4Provider.java:274)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:238)
	at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:161)

i noticed earlier that maven might do some black-magic with these regexps in the background ( i know that it should know the class name earlier; to avoid starting testcases which will get entirely excluded...and thats cool )

...so..i assume maven does split the regex by the #; and that's okay - if that can't be avoided; place some pointers in the documentation about it and/or a more descriptive exception could be useful

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #113