Re: [Springframework-developer] Retrieve all class path resources with the same name

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I've been thinking about this, and was wondering if it's appropriate 
that _all_ matching resources are found, all the time, and also if we 
should be worried about a backwards incompatible change.

Before, in ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, the locations
   beans.xml
and
   classpath:beans.xml
would return one resource, regardless of how many there were.

Now the former still returns one, while the latter returns 1-x.

Is it a problem that we've made a backwards incompatible change for the 
latter form?
Is it a problem that somebody, if they want just one resource, has to 
know that they need to use the first form? Additionally to this, this 
distinction is possible when something like 
ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, but for others that override the default 
getResourceByPath to default to something else than a classpath 
resource,  it's not a possibility.

I guess somebody could say, if there are multiple resources available 
under that name, is it ever appropriate to return just one? I think so, 
since after all, even in that case, the classloader resource loading 
strategy is well defined and deterministic.

Since the 'classpath:' prefix is something we made up, why don't we keep 
this for just a single resource, and use something like 'resources:' (or 
whatever) to mean multiple resources?

Colin

jürgen höller [werk3AT] wrote:

>FYI, I've just refined PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver to be able to retrieve all class path resources with the same name. It actually inherits this from the new base class ClassPathResourcePatternResolver.
>
>http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1096825&forum_id=250340
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>So "classpath:/beans.xml" will load all beans.xml files in classes directories or JAR files, if passed into PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver. Of course, Ant-style file path patterns like "/WEB-INF/*-context.xml" still work.
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>As this is automatically used by "contextConfigLocation" parameters, this means that we can specify such a URL for a root web application context, for example to auto-load all beans.xml files contained in deployed JAR files in WEB-INF\lib (HiveMind-style)!
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