This chapter contains miscellanea information on features, goodies, caveats that does not belong to any paricular area.

Spring.Util.PathMatcher provides Ant/NAnt-like path name matching features. To do the match, you use the method: static bool Match(string pattern, string path) If you want to decide if case is important or not use the method: static bool Match(string pattern, string path, bool ignoreCase)

To build your pattern, you use the *, ? and ** building blocks: *: matches any number of non slash characters; ?: matches exactly 1 (one) non slash/dot character; **: matches any subdirectory, without taking care of the depth;

A file name can be matched using the following notation: foo?bar.* matches: fooAbar.txt foo1bar.txt foo_bar.txt foo-bar.txt does not match: foo.bar.txt foo/bar.txt foo\bar.txt The classical all files pattern: *.* matches: foo.db .db foo foo.bar.db foo.db.db db.db.db does not match: c:/ c:/foo.db c:/foo c:/.db c:/foo.foo.db //server/foo

A directory name can be matched at any depth level using the following notation: **/db/** That pattern matches the following paths: /db //server/db c:/db c:/spring/app/db/foo.db //Program Files/App/spaced dir/db/foo.db /home/spring/spaced dir/db/v1/foo.db but does not match these: c:/spring/app/db-v1/foo.db /home/spring/spaced dir/db-v1/foo.db You can compose subdirectories to match like this: **/bin/**/tmp/** That pattern matches the following paths: c:/spring/foo/bin/bar/tmp/a c:/spring/foo/bin/tmp/a/b.c but does not match these: c:/spring/foo/bin/bar/temp/a c:/tmp/foo/bin/bar/a/b.c You can use more advanced patterns: **/.spring-assemblies*/** matches: c:/.spring-assemblies c:/.spring-assembliesabcd73xs c:/app/.spring-assembliesabcd73xs c:/app/.spring-assembliesabcd73xs/foo.dll //server/app/.spring-assembliesabcd73xs does not match: c:/app/.spring-assemblie

.NET is expected to be a cross-platform development ... platform. So, PathMatcher will match taking care of the case of the pattern and the case of the path. For example: **/db/**/*.DB matches: c:/spring/service/deploy/app/db/foo.DB but does not match: c:/spring/service/deploy/app/DB/foo.DB c:spring/service/deploy/app/spaced dir/DB/foo.DB //server/share/service/deploy/app/DB/backup/foo.db If you do not matter about case, you should explicitly tell the Pathmatcher. Back and forward slashes, in the very same cross-platform spirit, are not important: spring/foo.bar matches all the following paths: c:\spring\foo.bar c:/spring\foo.bar c:/spring/foo.bar /spring/foo.bar \spring\foo.bar