generated file in the wrong place - maven

I'm using the maven resources plugin to generate a plain file via filtering within a war file. I have the template file with variables in a the folder src/main/webapp/app
<build>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp/app</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
the problem is that the generated file is in the WEB-INF/classes folder and I need it to be at the app folder at the root of the war.
The war structure should be
*.jsf
app/<generated_file>
WEB-INF/
How can I do it?

You have to add a copy-resources goal if you want to copy something to another structure during your build, with that you can point to a custom output path:
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/extra-resources</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/non-packaged-resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
This can be found here in the documentation.

With the comments I could finally get the solution. It was simply to set the outputDirectory parameter to src/main/webapp/app and put the template in another place outside src/main/webapp. In my case, I put it in a folder src/main/jnlp. So finally this was the solution.. hope it helps others
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/app</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/jnlp</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Related

Filtering resources with different encodings

I have a maven project. In /src/main/resources/ I have two files foo.properties and bar.xml. The first is encoded in ISO-8859-1 and the second one in UTF-8.
Is there an easy way to get filtering for both files without breaking encoding?
As far as I see, I cannot specify an encoding in a <resource> block. It seems only possible to specify an encoding for the plugin itself, but this would lead in both files being filtered using the same encoding.
Ideally I would like to specify something like:
*.properties -> filter using ISO-8859-1
*.xml -> filter using UTF-8
*.pdf -> do not filter
anything else -> filter using default encoding
This doesn't feel like a very unusual situation, is there an easy way to configure this?
First i would suggest to put those resources which are iso based into a different directory like src/main/iso-resources and use something like this:
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<name>Resource Test</name>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<nonFilteredFileExtensions>
<nonFilteredFileExtension>pdf</nonFilteredFileExtension>
</nonFilteredFileExtensions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-iso-part</id>
<goals><goal>copy-resources</goal></goals>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/iso-resources/</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
If you don't want to keep your resources in separate directories you can also keep them in the default directory src/main/resources and play with exclusions.
The idea is:
file extensions that should not be filtered should be added to the default configuration using nonFilteredFileExtensions
let the default execution of the resources plugin process resources with the default encoding
exclude files that do no use this encoding from the build/resources configuration
for each additional encoding you want to handle, add an execution of goal "copy-resources" with explicit includes that selects only the targeted files
This example only handles .properties but you can easily generalize:
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>application*.properties</exclude>
</excludes>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
...
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<nonFilteredFileExtensions>
<nonFilteredFileExtension>pdf</nonFilteredFileExtension>
</nonFilteredFileExtensions>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>properties</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<encoding>ISO-8859-1</encoding>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>application*.properties</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Adding Templates in Maven

I have a folder src/resource/templates with .xlsx and .docx files. I am using maven and how is it possible to copy files from that folder into jar file?
I found an answer using maven copy.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/classes/report/resource/Templates</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/report/resource/Templates</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You can add more resource directories to maven project. See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/resource-directory.html
For example:
<project>
...
<build>
...
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/resource/templates</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
...
</build>
...
</project>
EDITED added clarification:
If you now have file src/resource/templates/example.xlsx it should be on jar's root.
File src/resource/templates/report/resource/Templates/example.xlsx would be copied to jar as file report/resource/Templates/example.xlsx

Apache Maven Resources Plugin exclude a directory

I'm trying to copy some resources from one point to an other during the build process. Therefore I use the Apache Maven Resources Plugin. Actually I exclude some files, I don't need. But I want also to exclude a directory. I tried serveral ways but it didn't work.
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-client-product</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/pro/client</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>target\products\client\win32\win32\x86\</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>p2</exclude>
<exclude>eclipsec.exe</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
In this example I tried to exclude the folder "p2".
<exclude>*/p2/**</exclude>
<exclude>p2/**</exclude>
<exclude>**/p2</exclude>
Also don't work.
<exclude>**/p2/**</exclude>
is the correct answer thanks to #khmarbaise.
Try this
<resource>
<directory>p2</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>p2/**</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>

Maven-resources-plugin won't copy .metadata folder

I'm trying to copy a folder or following structure with maven-resources-plugin:
root
|- .metadata
|- Project
\- .gitignore
Project directory and .gitignore files are copied, but .metadata directory is left out for some reason.
How do I copy all contents of root folder?
Here is configuration I tried:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/aut-ws</outputDirectory>
<useBuildFilters>false</useBuildFilters>
<nonFilteredFileExtensions>
<nonFilteredFileExtension>metadata</nonFilteredFileExtension>
</nonFilteredFileExtensions>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>H:\rcptt\workspaces\root</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You're looking for the configuration parameter addDefaultExcludes. See the documentation page.
So your configuration section should look like the following:
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/aut-ws</outputDirectory>
<addDefaultExcludes>false</addDefaultExcludes>
...
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>H:\rcptt\workspaces\root</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
If this was relating to the maven-assembly-plugin then I had this problem, and had to use the useDefaultExcludes property (recent versions of the plugin only); by default it is true and it needs to be set to false to include directories like .metadata. This doesn't seem to be applicable to maven-resources-plugin though, or it might just not be a documented property.
My first fix attempt would be trying modifying the resources element.
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>H:\rcptt\workspaces\root</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
<include>**/.*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
Also, if you comment out the <nonFilteredFileExtensions> element, does it work?
Edit to show full plugin configuration that works with Maven 3.2.2, Resources plugin 2.7, on both Windows 7 and RedHat Linux. Command for testing is mvn validate.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals><goal>copy-resources</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/testing123</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
<include>**/.*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Just add addDefaultExcludes as #Matthew Wise said.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<configuration>
<addDefaultExcludes>false</addDefaultExcludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
By default files like .gitignore, .cvsignore etc. are excluded which
means they will not being copied. If you need them for a particular
reason you can do that by settings this to false.
Documentation: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/copy-resources-mojo.html#addDefaultExcludes

Maven: how to get a war package with resources copied in WEB-INF?

when I create a war package with maven, files and directories under the directory "src/main/resources" are copied in /WEB-INF/classes instead of /WEB-INF. How can I get them copied in /WEB-INF?
thanks,
rand
UPDATE:
in my pom now I use this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>war</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>myapp/target/WEB-INF</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
and I launch mvn with:
mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean package resources:copy-resources
but I got:
[INFO] One or more required plugin parameters are invalid/missing for 'resources:copy-resources'
[0] Inside the definition for plugin 'maven-resources-plugin' specify the following:
<configuration>
...
<outputDirectory>VALUE</outputDirectory>
</configuration>.
[1] Inside the definition for plugin 'maven-resources-plugin' specify the following:
<configuration>
...
<resources>VALUE</resources>
</configuration>.
I'm using maven 2.2 and the snippet basically is the same of the documentation
any idea?
either configure the outputDirectory parameter of resources:resources plugin, or put your files under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ directory.
resource plugin
EDIT:
This configuration is working for me:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-copy-resources</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<overwrite>true</overwrite>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
you can run a phase in the form somePhase or a goal somePlugin:someGoal. The phase invocations will invoke all plugins goals hooked on phases in interval [validate,phase] in order, so there's no need to explicitly call them.
Web resources are not the same as java resources, which should be placed in the classpath. Web resources are processed via the war plugin and should be placed into src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\. In this case, it will work automatically without any additional configuration in the pom.xml
This configuration is working add plugin pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<!--copy resource file location-->
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.directory}/classes</directory>
</resource>
</webResources>
<!--location for add file-->
<webappDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</webappDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>

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