Regression: Cannot import XML bean documents using classpath*: pseudo URLs [SPR-6411]

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David Ward opened SPR-6411 and commented

At alfresco, we have a large number of spring bean files containing wildcard imports such as this

<beans>

<import resource="classpath*:alfresco/module-context.xml" />
<import resource="classpath*:alfresco/enterprise/*-context.xml"/>

</beans>

Unfortunately, this no longer works with Spring 3.0 RC2.

I have tracked down the problem to

org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(Element)

and have successfully fixed the issue in my own subclass with the following change

        // Discover whether the location is an absolute or relative URI
        boolean absoluteLocation = false;

        try
        {
            absoluteLocation = location.startsWith(ResourcePatternResolver.CLASSPATH_ALL_URL_PREFIX) // ADDED THIS LINE
                    || ResourceUtils.toURI(location).isAbsolute();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            // cannot convert to an URI, considering the location relative
        }

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Affects: 3.0 RC2

Issue Links:

• Cannot import bean definitions using classpath*: resource location [SPR-6366] #11032 Cannot import bean definitions using classpath*: resource location ("duplicates")

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

This should be fixed in the latest snapshots already.

Juergen