I have an application that is developed in a Windows environment. The application itself gets deployed to a Linux environment. Each time I deploy this application I have to convert executable files to UNIX format using dos2unix. I originally thought this was caused by the Windows CP1252 encoding, so I updated Maven to encode the files to UTF-8. This didn't solve my issue and I quickly found out that this has to do with carriage returns and line feeds by searching this site. Is there a way to have Maven convert all of the files to UNIX format during the build process? I am using Maven 2.2.1 and Java 5.
A:
this being a trivial task, intuition says there should be a maven plugin available which you could use. If it is not available, i would presume that writing one should not be a herculian task.
Aadith
2010-01-29 14:04:41
+3
A:
You can use the Maven antrun plugin to call the fixcrlf ant task:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>ant-test</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-test</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>ant-test</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<fixcrlf ... />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Kevin
2010-01-29 14:04:42
I tried <fixcrlf srcdir="${basedir}" eol="unix"/>, which seems to be working. I am also using the maven assembly plugin and it is now having issues reading the jar files due to this conversion. Any ideas on how I can get this to build on a Windows machine?
hoffmandirt
2010-01-29 14:23:26
You probably want to add an includes or excludes attribute so you're only changing *.txt or whatever resources you're trying to modify
Kevin
2010-01-29 14:40:42
Thanks, the includes/excludes worked. It modifies the files in my source directories though, which will be OK if need be, but is there any way to have the Maven assembly plug-in run this ant task as it is building so that I won't have to revert or check in my files?
hoffmandirt
2010-01-29 14:48:20
What resources are you trying to modify? See the documentation for the antrun plugin, you can use maven expressions to reference build paths and other related paths.
Kevin
2010-01-29 14:50:25
+4
A:
The assembly plugin has a lineEnding
option which can be used to control the line-ending of the files for a given fileSet
. This parameter is precisely there to do what you want. Ultimately, you could build zip archives with with CRLF lines and tar.gz archives with LF lines.
Pascal Thivent
2010-01-29 14:52:44