jar -i omits service providers in index.list

Name: boT120536 Date: 01/25/2001


java version "1.3.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0, mixed mode)


When a service provider is compiled into a jar, it must provide files in META-
INF/services. When a jar -i is run on that file, the META-INF/services
directory is not added to the directory list in META-INF/INDEX.LIST. When this
jar is used, the appropriate service providers are not found. When I don't
create the index in the jar, the service provider is found correctly.

  To reproduce the problem, you can try with any jar that includes a service
provider or use tritonus:
1. Download the latest CVS version of Tritonus, from
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/tritonus-cvsroot.tar.gz.
2. build it (on linux) with "make compileinitial && make install"
3. cd test ; make MpegPlayer.java
4. java MpegPlayer "mp3file.mp3" should run fine, or at least NOT give the
error that the conversion is not supported.
5. jar -i ../dist/tritonus_core.jar
6. run again the MpegPlayer and the service provider isn't found, with an
UnsupportedAudioFileException.

Looking at the source code of jar/sun.misc.JarIndex:187:
                if (fileName.startsWith("META-INF")) {
                    continue;
                }
Everything inside META-INF is not included in INDEX.LIST. I think the service
provider files should be included in INDEX.LIST, as they are searched by the
classloader.
(Review ID: 111540)
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