> It looks like Apache RAT 0.8 uses standard Java wildcard regex file > matching, whereas the original RAT used a different set of wildcard > meta-characters - more like the syntax used by Maven and Ant.
Unfortunately, in this particular case, there is no such thing like "Rat", but there are a) the Rat Maven Plugin (uses Plexus Utils internally, hence Maven style) b) the Rat Ant Tasks (uses Ant pattern matcher internally, hence Ant style) c) the Rat CLI, which probably uses native Java patterns (dunno) My suggestion would be to switch to either Ant, or Maven anyways. (At least, I assume that Allura has got a build script.) Jochen On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:09 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 April 2013 20:42, Peter Hartmann <mailbox....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > I'm contributing to Apache Allura incubating project, where my efforts > are > > mostly focused on getting a release out. I've attempted a RAT testing, > but > > it gives me an error when I try to use -E option: > > > > ~ $: java -jar ../apache-rat-0.8/apache-rat-**0.8.jar -E ./.rat-ignore -d > > ./ > > Exception in thread "main" java.util.regex.**PatternSyntaxException: > > Dangling meta character '*' near index 0 > > **/setup.cfg > > ^ > > at java.util.regex.Pattern.error(**Pattern.java:1924) > > at java.util.regex.Pattern.**sequence(Pattern.java:2090) > > at java.util.regex.Pattern.expr(**Pattern.java:1964) > > at java.util.regex.Pattern.**compile(Pattern.java:1665) > > at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>**(Pattern.java:1337) > > at java.util.regex.Pattern.**compile(Pattern.java:1022) > > at org.apache.commons.io.**filefilter.RegexFileFilter.<** > > init>(RegexFileFilter.java:62) > > at org.apache.rat.Report.main(**Report.java:109) > > > > .rat-ignore file's content is: > > > > .rat-ignore > > **/setup.cfg > > **/*.json > > Makefile.def.buildbot > > requirements* > > **/MANIFEST.in > > Allura/allura/controllers/**controller.template > > Allura/allura/etc/mime.types > > Allura/allura/tests/data/**genshi_hello_tmpl > > Allura/allura/tests/data/test_**mime/text_file.txt > > ForgeGit/forgegit/data/post-**receive_tmpl > > ForgeGit/forgegit/tests/data/ > > ForgeSVN/forgesvn/tests/data/ > > > > Do I miss something? I've modelled the file after examples given at > > http://ci.apache.org/projects/**rat-master-summary.html< > http://ci.apache.org/projects/rat-master-summary.html> > > > > It looks like Apache RAT 0.8 uses standard Java wildcard regex file > matching, whereas the original RAT used a different set of wildcard > meta-characters - more like the syntax used by Maven and Ant. > > The intended wildcard support does not appear to be documented anywhere, so > it's not clear whether the change is intentional or not. > > If you are running RAT from Ant or Maven I think they interpret the > patterns using their own wildcard scheme. > -- "That's what prayers are ... it's frightened people trying to make friends with the bully!" Terry Pratchett. The Last Hero
