ok, so tried out my solution and the copy is working ;) but it is not
filtering our the res folder in the war file plugin for some reason. How do
I fix this xml so it filters out res folder...
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<echo message="Running jboss ant
tasks"/>
<mkdir
dir="${project.build.directory}/${project.name
}-${project.version}/res-${BUILD_NUMBER}"/>
<copy
todir="${project.build.directory}/${project.name
}-${project.version}/res-${BUILD_NUMBER}">
<fileset
dir="src/main/webapp/res">
<include name="**"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
<copy
file="src/main/descriptors/jboss/WEB-INF/components.xml"
tofile="${project.build.directory}/${project.name}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/components.xml"
/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory
-->
<directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
<!-- the list has a default value of ** -->
<excludes>
<exclude>res**</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</webResources>
<archive>
<manifestEntries>
<Svn-Revision>${SVN_REVISION}</Svn-Revision>
<Build-Tag>${BUILD_TAG}</Build-Tag>
<Build-Number>${BUILD_NUMBER}</Build-Number>
<Build-Id>${BUILD_ID}</Build-Id>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Dean Hiller <d...@alvazan.com> wrote:
> heh, I went that direction and that hosed my dev environment up/SCM such
> taht SCM wanted to check the changes in(I then figured it is really a bad
> idea to generate files at all during a build in the src or input
> directories).
>
> but as in my last email, I think I am close to a solution. Just have to
> try it after we fix our artifactory from being filled up.
>
> Dean
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Ron Wheeler <
> rwhee...@artifact-software.com> wrote:
>
>> Can you not figure out a way to rename the source of the copy so that the
>> names are changed before maven moves them to the output?
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19/05/2010 10:20 AM, Dean Hiller wrote:
>>
>>> actually, this pattern is very typical to release new versions of css,
>>> js,
>>> etc. Projects like richfaces and TinyMCE both use this pattern(not to
>>> mention many more). I don't know of any other way to get css, js fixes
>>> immediately out to customers without the renaming(in fact, I doubt a
>>> better
>>> solution exists here as this solution has worked great for our last 4
>>> releases but I am open to ideas).
>>>
>>> As far as ${project.build.outputDirectory}, I did try that but that seems
>>> to
>>> deal with the target/classes directory which then goes to WEB-INF/classes
>>> when packaging a war file. I need the files in the base level of the
>>> war(and the property below references that correctly, BUT the directory
>>> doesn't exist yet).
>>>
>>> The only solution I am aware of for css, js, jpg fixes to go out in a new
>>> release is to rename the path to the file(or the file itself) as it is a
>>> very easy solution in build tools typically(at least it was in ant).
>>>
>>> Dean
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Moll, Jeff<jm...@glhec.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The correct property for accessing the target directory is
>>>> ${project.build.outputDirectory}. So if you change in your "todir" to
>>>> use ${project.build.outputDirectory} that should work. I would suggest
>>>> investigating another approach though, there has to be a simpler
>>>> solution to resolve .css caching.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> -Jeff
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: dean.hil...@gmail.com [mailto:dean.hil...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
>>>> Dean Hiller
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:53 AM
>>>> To: users@maven.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Re: how to move folder from res to res${BUILD_NUMBER} in maven?
>>>>
>>>> Is there no way of doing the below? This is like the most typical thing
>>>> in web applications so the browser will get the newest css, js, jpg
>>>> files when a new release comes out.
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Dean
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Dean Hiller<d...@alvazan.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Our resource folder in webapps named res(which has images, js, css,
>>>>> etc) is renamed every release. This then makes it so when we fix a
>>>>> css, customers get the fresh one instead of the old stale one from
>>>>> their cache(ie. they get the fix we made since this folder is always
>>>>> renamed).
>>>>>
>>>>> So, in maven, I had
>>>>> <plugin>
>>>>> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
>>>>> <executions>
>>>>> <execution>
>>>>> <phase>test</phase>
>>>>> <goals>
>>>>> <goal>run</goal>
>>>>> </goals>
>>>>> <configuration>
>>>>> <tasks>
>>>>> <move
>>>>> file="${project.build.directory}/${
>>>>> project.name}-${project.version}/res"
>>>>>
>>>>> todir="${project.build.directory}/${
>>>>> project.name}-${project.version}/res${BUILD_NUMBER}" />
>>>>> <delete
>>>>>
>>>>> file="${project.build.directory}/${
>>>>> project.name}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/components.xml" />
>>>>> <copy
>>>>> file="src/main/descriptors/jboss/WEB-INF/components.xml"
>>>>>
>>>>> tofile="${project.build.directory}/${
>>>>> project.name}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/components.xml" />
>>>>> </tasks>
>>>>> </configuration>
>>>>> </execution>
>>>>> </executions>
>>>>> </plugin>
>>>>>
>>>>> but the staging area for the webapp in target directory seems not to
>>>>> exist when my ant tasks run :( and so our build keeps on failing.
>>>>> 1. How do I move the target/webappstaging/res folder to
>>>>> target/webappstaging/resBUILDNUMBER folder OR 2. How do I move the
>>>>> src/main/webapp/res folder to target/webappstaging/resBUILD_NUMBER
>>>>> folder and delete target/webappstaging/res folder
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Dean
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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