[MSHADE-396] Improve SourceContent Shading by kriegaex · Pull Request #105 · apache/maven-shade-plugin (original) (raw)

Improve search & replace heuristics without destroying previously correct replacements in my test project (AspectJ). This solution is still bound to fail in some situations, simply because it is just a heuristic approach and not a full Java parser correctly recognising package names in all possible situations in Java source code. As for matching within Java string constants, this is next to impossible to get 100% right.

But the source shading feature is not meant as a source code generator anyway, merely as a tool creating reasonably plausible source code when navigating to a relocated library class from an IDE, hopefully displaying source code which makes 95% sense - no more, no less.