classpath*: is no longer finding resources with <import resource=""/> [SPR-6351]

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Scott Andrews opened SPR-6351 and commented

Between RC1 and RC2, classpath*: file paths stopped working. In a web app context, I am importing a set of spring contexts that form a plugin system. None of the files that match this pattern are detected
<import resource="classpath*:META-INF/insight/insight-plugin-*.xml" />

Removing the wild card and hard coding the path also does not pickup the files.
<import resource="classpath*:META-INF/insight/insight-plugin-springmvc.xml" />

Replacing the classpath*: with classpath: it is able to find the file.
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/insight/insight-plugin-springmvc.xml" />

Using classpath: with a wild card only imports a single resource. (appears to be the first match alphabetically)
<import resource="classpath:META-INF/insight/insight-plugin-*.xml" />

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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")

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Klaus Lehner commented

Not only that this feature isn't working any more, the error message that comes up now is quite confusing:

We have something like:

<import resource="classpath*:WEB-INF/dao-context-*.xml"/>

respectively just:

<import resource="classpath*:/WEB-INF/dao-context.xml"/>

The error message that comes up when starting the server is astonishing:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: URL [jndi:/localhost/WEB-INF/] cannot be resolved to absolute file path because it does not reside in the file system: jndi:/localhost/WEB-INF/
at org.springframework.util.ResourceUtils.getFile(ResourceUtils.java:204) [org.springframework.core.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.core.io.AbstractFileResolvingResource.getFile(AbstractFileResolvingResource.java:51) [org.springframework.core.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource.getFile(UrlResource.java:168) [org.springframework.core.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.doFindPathMatchingFileResources(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:529) [org.springframework.core.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.web.context.support.ServletContextResourcePatternResolver.doFindPathMatchingFileResources(ServletContextResourcePatternResolver.java:82) [org.springframework.web.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.findPathMatchingResources(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:350) [org.springframework.core.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.getResources(PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver.java:282) [org.springframework.core.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getResources(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1169) [org.springframework.context.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:177) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:197) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:145) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:130) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:90) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:493) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:390) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:302) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:143) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:178) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:149) [org.springframework.beans.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124) [org.springframework.web.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:93) [org.springframework.web.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:130) [org.springframework.context.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:464) [org.springframework.context.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:388) [org.springframework.context.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261) [org.springframework.web.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192) [org.springframework.web.jar:3.0.0.RC2]
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47) [org.springframework.web.jar:3.0.0.RC2]

And that although there is no use of jndi anywhere in our server code.

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Sam Brannen commented

FYI: the inclusion of the jndi resource lookup is likely the result of running your web application in Tomcat.