Re: maven test-resources

From:
Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On May 16, 6:51 am, ilkinulas <ilkinu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I am using maven2 and trying to add a directory to the test classpath.
test-resources in the pom.xml is not appended to the test-classpath.
Here's what maven prints when run with -X flag.

[DEBUG] Test Classpath :
[DEBUG] /home/ilkinulas/CVSHOME/DiameterPlatform/
CreditControlApplication/target/classes
[DEBUG] /home/ilkinulas/CVSHOME/DiameterPlatform/
CreditControlApplication/target/test-classes
[DEBUG] /home/ilkinulas/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-
beans/2.0.6/spring-beans-2.0.6.jar
[DEBUG] /home/ilkinulas/.m2/repository/aopalliance/aopalliance/1.0/
aopalliance-1.0.jar
[DEBUG] /home/ilkinulas/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-
dao/2.0.6/spring-dao-2.0.6.jar
[DEBUG] /home/ilkinulas/.m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1/
junit-3.8.1.jar
....
....

And in the pom.xml test resources is declared as follows:
        <build>
                <testResources>
                        <testResource>
                                <directory=
code/testresources</directory>
                        </testResource>
                </testResources>
         ......
         ......

What else I can do to add a custom folder to the test classpath?


Resources are copied to the 'classes' or 'test-classes' directory as
appropriate, not used from their original location in the source tree,
for Java projects. If you absolutely need to add another element to
the test classpath, maven-surefire-plugin has an option named
additionalClasspathElements, which takes a list of path elements to
add to the classpath:

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <additionalClasspathElements>
      <element>code/testresources</element>
    </additionalClasspathElements>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

However, before you do this, you should really consider working with,
rather than across, maven's defaults and store your test resources in
src/test/resources, and let maven-resources-plugin copy them to target/
test-classes during the build.

-o

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