Referencing other project with target file does not work on CI server

[phermsdorf]

Hi,

I'm referencing a common root target in my target files using

<location type="Target" uri="file:${project_loc:/rootproject}/base.target"/>

in the target files. On my developer box(windows) that works without problems.

When running on the CI server (linux with basically the same java 17 , tycho 4.0.10, maven 3.9.9 version as on my local box) i get the following error:

[ERROR] Failed to resolve target definition file:/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/projects_main/com.company.rpoject/../platform.target: Invalid URI file:${project_loc:rootproject}/base.target: Illegal character in path at index 7: file:/${project_loc:rootproject}/base.target

The base target and the .project file for the rootproject are in the root directory of the project and all other target files are in submodues and subdirectories.

My Projectfile is located next to the project parent pom and looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
	<name>rootproject</name>
	<comment></comment>
	<projects>
	</projects>
	<buildSpec>
	</buildSpec>
	<natures>
	</natures>
</projectDescription>

I also tried changing the uri to file:${project_loc:rootproject}/base.target (removing the trailing slash) but without any change.

Any idea why it's running locally but not on the CI server?

Thanks for any hints on this ...

Bye Peter

[laeubi]

I don't think Tycho reads the .project file for pom projects (one might want to enhance it in that way), as a workaround you can just use another project name (or use the maven artifact id) you should also get a warning in the log that Tycho can't find the mentioned name.

[phermsdorf]

Thanks for your hint.
I investigated why it's working locally, but not on the remote server:

It depends on the name of the root folder:

• locally my repo is checked out under the name rootproject -> mvn clean verify works as expected
• on the CI server the repo is checked out under something like rootproject_main -> mvn clean verify fails with the above error message

I think that should be fixed as also the PDE UI suggests using file:${project_loc:/rootproject}/base.target in the target editor when adding the target location.

I'll try to workaround this using the maven coordinates.

Thank you.

Bye Peter

[phermsdorf]

I created #4731 since the Target Editor cannot handle uri's with maven coordinates correctly.
But it is probably easier to make tycho also regognize maven project names ....