> -----Original Message----- > From: Jörg Schaible [mailto:joerg.schai...@scalaris.com] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 02:36 > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: Re: [codec] Large test data set! > > Gary Gregory wrote: > > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 17:43, "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schai...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> Gary Gregory wrote: > >> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: Jörg Schaible [mailto:joerg.schai...@scalaris.com] > >>>> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:21 > >>>> To: dev@commons.apache.org > >>>> Subject: Re: [codec] Large test data set! > >>>> > >>>> Hi Julius, > >>>> > >>>> Julius Davies wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>>> However, it will probably do no harm to ask at legal@. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Do we actually have to distribute it? Maybe we can add is as zip to > >>>>>> the Maven repo and use the dependency plugin to download and extract > >>>>>> it on the fly. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> - Jörg > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Another option: ask the copyright holder to relicense to us under > >>>>> the ASL 2.0. That often works! > >>>> > >>>> Why do you want to include it into our Subversion? If it's downloade > >>>> automatically for the test like any other dependency, what's wrong > with > >>>> it? > >>> > >>> It's not in a Maven repository, it's in a Zip file on SourceForge. > >> > >> ... and it is a defined process to put something into central. > > > > Yes that's true and a good point. But how do you read a data file from > > java that works from the build and any IDE. That code would need to be > > able to resolve the right location in the local M2 repo. This must have > > happened before. Maybe there is a way to add the right dir to the > > classpath and get the file as a resource through a class loader. > > ?!? > > You would use the dependency plugin in the generate-resources phase to > extract the zip file into your local target directory where you then access > the file(s) in your test. Quite a normal action with Maven.
That's the part I did not know about. Thank you for the tip! Gary > > And regarding an IDE there's no difference from any other task that > generates resources or additional source files. > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
