StringIndexOutOfBoundsException (-1) somewhere in jasmine:generateManualRunner about jasmine-maven-plugin

[searls]

I was able to replicate this in Windows and patched it today. This commit should fix it: http://github.com/searls/jasmine-maven-plugin/commit/e89008a7edda3c6e710ebe0f50af3d8a916e08b7

Feel free to open another issue if you experience this again. If you can share your POM or an archive of your configuration, it would help debug the issue more confidently.

[tsnee]

Thanks a lot! The underlying problem was that I was using absolute paths for preloadSources. The third-party code (Ext JS 3.2.1) that my code depends on was not in my source tree. Is there some way to specify JavaScript dependencies aside from preloadSources?

[searls]

The purpose of the preloadSources property list was to allow users to force the ordering of JS sources, not to identify additional sources outside the specified source dir.

The plugin presumes all sources to be in the jsSrcDir directory (which defaults to src/main/javascript). My personal workflow is to stick my production JS sources in a folder and any dependencies in a sub-directory.

If that isn't possible, we could consider adding a list of source directories instead of just one.

As an immediate workaround, let's say you have a webapp, but you also have an ogre that requires you to keep your own JS and vendor JS in distinct, separate folders. You might be able to get by with pointing the property at their first shared ancestor and crossing your fingers, like so:

<configuration>
  <jsSrcDir>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp</jsSrcDir>
  ...
</configuration>

This will include "*/.js" inside webapp, so it would copy both your own js folder as well as one including third party scripts.