Is there a way to exclude paths from the searching?

[wimdeblauwe]

I want to use bootstrap-select (https://silviomoreto.github.io/bootstrap-select/) with Webjars. However, I get a MultipleMatchesFoundException. Which is normal given the structure of the webjar:

Is there any setting I can do to avoid that anything under docs gets matched?

[jamesward]

Can you try to use getFullPathExact: https://javadoccentral.herokuapp.com/org.webjars/webjars-locator-core/0.32/org/webjars/WebJarAssetLocator.html#getFullPathExact-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-

Like: webJarAssetLocator.getFullPathExact("bootstrap-select", "dist/css/bootstrap-select.min.css")

Let me know if that works.

[wimdeblauwe]

I am using Spring Boot 1.5.x with webjars-locator which does all the magic. Any way I can influence this magic?

[jamesward]

Hmmm... I'm not sure. Maybe @royclarkson can help.

[royclarkson]

Appears there is a fix for the MultipleMatchesFoundException in Spring Framework. spring-projects/spring-framework#1420

[maybeec]

The current implementation even fails for jars, which declare a packed file equally named as one of the source files. I just made a test with moment.js, which serves multiple moment.js files:

[
META-INF/resources/webjars/moment/2.18.1/src/lib/moment/moment.js, 
META-INF/resources/webjars/moment/2.18.1/src/moment.js, 
META-INF/resources/webjars/moment/2.18.1/moment.js
]

However, the first entry in the sorted list already gives you the correct pointer (last element of the list).

[jamesward]

Does Spring somehow expose the getFullPathExact method? That is the right way to do this, like:

locator.getFullPathExact("moment", "moment.js")

[maybeec]

The first parameter is the webjar name. So this API would end up in three matches as well for the example above.

[jamesward]

The getFullPathExact doesn't do partial matching. It really just inserts the version between the WebJar name and the provided path.