Hi,
I'm using exec-maven-plugin to run an external script which needs environment
variables setting (specifically a path).
Everything works fine until my IDE decides (not un-reasonably) that the length
path I've specified ought to be wrapped at 80 chars and indented nicely.
At this point; the environment variable that I've defined has newlines added to
it and hence the path is corrupt.
I have checked out the source for 1.2.1 and added some code to ExecMojo.java
which will remove the newlines (and extra whitespace) that's added and it now
works correctly.
However; I realise that it's possible that there may be use-cases where
whitespace is wanted. Everyone seems comfortable that XML shouldn't care about
line-breaks / formatting within a body of text, but adherence to that means
that these use-cases won't be supported.
I've tried using a CDATA block for the value of a multi-line environment
variable; this is passed through but is a java.lang.String with line-endings in
exactly the same way as the non-multi-line, wrapped use-case so this can't be
used to differentiate.
Before I go further into thinking about how this use case might be catered for,
it would be good to know if there really is a multi-line use case - or whether
I'm just imagining it!
I'll go ahead and commit my change to remove the extraneous line-endings and
I'll be interested to hear opinions on the multi-line use case.
Zuhayr Khan
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