[jboss-as7-dev] AS config path only as a relative path?

[Ondřej Žižka]

Oops, forgot to paste the link.
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3726  Pass the path to docs/examples
to the tests.
(I worded it rather not to expect current behavior to change.)

Ondra


Brian Stansberry píše v Po 13. 02. 2012 v 10:30 -0600:

> I didn't see the JIRA, so I'm copying the dev list.
> 
> It was removed because the semantic was unclear. Users were expecting to 
> pass in an absolute file and then have the AS write back to that file. 
> We're not going to support writing outside the configuration/ dir and 
> never intended to.
> 
> I agree though that completely eliminating this was not the best 
> solution, as there's a good use case for it. Besides the testing issue, 
> some folks don't like the AS overwriting the config file in the first 
> place, so passing in a config file in a non-writable location is a 
> workaround solution for them.
> 
> My thoughts on this were to allow an --initial-server-config (for 
> standalone) and --initial-domain-config and --initial-host-config (for 
> domain). They would allow absolute paths. Their names and documentation 
> would indicate their contents are read when the process is first started 
> and thereafter are ignored.
> 
> 
> On 2/13/12 4:28 AM, Ondřej Žižka wrote:
> > I've created a jira for this task,
> > let's discuss there.
> >
> > Thx,
> > Ondra
> >
> >
> > Ondřej Žižka píše v Po 13. 02. 2012 v 11:15 +0100:
> >> Hi Brian,
> >>
> >> what was the reason to restrict AS config in sys prop to a relative path?
> >>
> >> In the testsuite, we would make use of absolute paths.
> >> The reason is that we reuse the configs from docs/examples, and they
> >> change quite often, so having them in resources would be hardly
> >> maintainable.
> >> However, docs/examples is not guaranteed to be always in the same
> >> place: E.g. for EAP, or for RPM-based installation of EAP it might end
> >> up in /var/docs or such.
> >>
> >> I would like to pass some property from maven to the tests, but that
> >> results in absolute path.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ondra
> >
> 
> 


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