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Fix glob patterns in exists()/missing() profile conditions on Windows - #13160
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DefaultProfileActivationContext aligned the whole pattern to the project
directory before splitting it into a fixed directory and a glob. On
Windows this breaks both kinds of pattern:
- an absolute pattern such as '${project.basedir}/src/**/*.xsd' leaves a
glob with backslash separators ('**\*.xsd'), and the glob syntax reads
'\' as an escape character, so nothing ever matches: exists() is always
false and missing() always true;
- a relative pattern such as '**/*.xsd' is resolved with Path.resolve(),
which throws InvalidPathException because '*' is not a valid Windows
path character.
Split the interpolated pattern first, align only the fixed part, and use
'/' as the separator in the glob. testFileWilcards, disabled since the
condition activator was added, passes on Linux and Windows now and is
enabled again.
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The fix is mechanically correct: splitting the interpolated pattern on '/' and '\' before calling alignToBaseDirectory prevents the path normalizer from turning **/*.xsd into **\*.xsd on Windows (where \ is an escape character in glob syntax, not a separator). The extraction of interpolate() from interpolatePath() preserves the public contract while giving doExists access to the pre-aligned string.
Two points worth addressing:
1. No JIRA issue linked. Maven PRs are expected to reference a MNG-XXXXXX JIRA ticket in the title and body so the fix is traceable in the release notes. Please file an issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/MNG and update the PR title to [MNG-XXXXXX] Fix glob patterns in exists()/missing() profile conditions on Windows.
2. The mvn verify and Core-IT checkboxes are unchecked. The PR description includes solid evidence that the tests pass on both Linux and Windows, so this looks like a documentation gap rather than a real skip — but the checklist is part of the contribution process. Please check the boxes (or explain why Core ITs were not run, e.g. infrastructure access).
Everything else looks solid. The edge cases (lastSep < 0 → fixed = "" → alignToBaseDirectory("…", basedir) resolves to basedir; trailing-separator fixed normalized by Path.resolve(...).normalize(); glob.replace('\\', '/') ensuring glob-safe separators) all behave correctly on both platforms.
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Thank you for the review — the walk through the edge cases ( On the JIRA ticket: I cannot file one. ASF Jira no longer accepts self-registration — the login page ends with "Not a member? To request an account, please contact your Jira administrators." and there is no public signup form behind it. So an outside contributor has no way to obtain an MNG number on their own. I am happy to rename the title to On the two checkboxes: I have left them unchecked because ticking them would claim more than I did. What I ran is in the description — If someone with an account files the ticket, or points me to the right person to ask for one, I will update the title straight away — otherwise this is simply where the PR stands. Found by a defect-hunting pipeline I build and run (Dev-next-gen), using Claude Code with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5. |
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activation/conditiondocs in maven.mdo giveexists('${project.basedir}/src/**/*.xsd')as the file-existence example. On Windows that condition never matches, and a relative pattern likeexists('**/*.xsd')fails the profile with an exception.DefaultProfileActivationContext.doExistsran the whole pattern throughinterpolatePath(), which aligns it to the project directory, and only then split it into a fixed directory and a glob. On Windows that goes wrong in two ways:/into\, so the glob becomes**\*.xsd. The JDK glob syntax treats\as an escape character on Windows too (there,/is what matches the separator), so the pattern looks for a literal*and nothing matches.exists()is always false andmissing()always true.basedir.resolve("**\*.xsd"), which throwsInvalidPathException: Illegal char <*> at index 0: **\*.xsdbecause*is not a valid Windows path character. The condition activator reports it asError invoking function 'exists'.The fix splits the interpolated pattern first, on either
/or\. It then aligns only the fixed part to the base directory and uses/as the separator in the glob.interpolatePath()keeps its behavior; its interpolation step moves into a privateinterpolate()sodoExistscan use it before alignment. On Linux and macOS the result is the same as before, since alignment already turned\into/there.testFileWilcardsinConditionProfileActivatorTestcovers exactly these patterns but has been@Disabledsince the condition activator was added. It passes on Linux as is, so I re-enabled it and added two negative assertions (missing(...)on an existing match,exists(...)on a missing one). To check on Windows 11 (JDK 17), I ran the test class againstmaven-implclasses built from master and from this branch:FileProfileActivatorTestpasses on both. On Linux (JDK 21), allmaven-impltests pass (709 run, 0 failures) andspotless:checkis clean.Your pull request should address just one issue, without pulling in other changes.
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