Excluding Resource while packaging in maven

Question

I have a project with sample structure as :

jcr_root |_apps |_A |_B |_etc |_A |_B

What I need to do is while creating a package, I need to include either "apps/A & etc/A" or "apps/B & etc/B"

In my pom.xml, I tried something like :

<resources>
       <resource>
        <directory>src/main/content/jcr_root</directory>
            <excludes>
            <exclude>apps/A/**</exclude>
                        <exclude>etc/A/**</exclude>
                </excludes>
     </resource>
</resources>

But still both 'A' and 'B' under apps and etc get included while packaging. I'm using content-package-maven-plugin to build a package that would be deployed on CQ.

I tried putting entries in filter.xml but then it is used while deployment and not while packaging.

It seems, the include/exclude tags are not at all working. For testing, I tried:

<resources>
   <resource>
    <directory>src/main/content/jcr_root</directory>
        <excludes>
        <exclude>**/*.otf</exclude>
                    </excludes>
   </resource>
</resources>

But still fonts.otf file was getting included in the packaged zip.

Some help or hints please. Let me know if any more info is required.

Many Thanks in Advance.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '14 at 08:37

So finally I was able to create a package with the excluded resources.

The issue was not with the include/exclude tag(they always worked fine.)

The files after excluding some resource were copied to "target/classes" directory Issue was that the maven-content-package plugin took the resource to package from original source directory rather than the "target/classes" directory created.Thus it always included everything. This is the default behaviour of maven-content-package plugin.

Thus I had to explicitly tell the plugin that you need to pick the resource to package from "target/classes".

<builtContentDirectory>${basedir}/target/classes</builtContentDirectory>

Please let me know if anyone needs more detail. Thanks for all your answers:)

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:19

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Since you want to include jcr_root/app/A and jcr_root/etc/A Please you try using this in POM.xml:

<project>
    ...
    <resources>
    <resource>
        <directory>jcr_root</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*A*</include>
        </includes>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>**/*B*</exclude>
        </excludes>
    </resource>
    <resources>
</project>

Similarly you can do it for getting jcr_root/app/B and jcr_root/etc/B.

Regards

Jyotsna

edited Apr 14 '14 at 14:19

Leos Literak

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answered Mar 14 '14 at 05:23

Jyotsna Saroha

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Hi Jyotsana, thanx for your response. I tried the suggestion as above but it didn help. src/main/content/jcr_root **/*A* **/*B* – San7988 Mar 14 '14 at 05:52

Excluding Resource while packaging in maven

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