Automatic creation of MANIFEST.MF

[pskopek]

Just an idea popped in my head.

Wouldn't it be useful if ShrinkWrap creates "default" MANIFEST.MF if user didn't call setManifest method or better said if there is not file called MANIFEST.MF ?

By default I mean something like:

Manifest-Version: 1.0                                                                                                                                                                   
Created-By: 1.0.0 (ShrinkWrap)

It looks useful to me or at least it will create complete archive.

[aslak]

Yea, it's on our TODO list..

https://jira.jboss.org/browse/SHRINKWRAP-48

Exactly how is not worked out yet tho. If you want to prototype/contribute to it, your very welcome. 

[alrubinger]

SHRINKWRAP-48 is related, but more addresses the easy addition/mutation of the manifest.

The JAR tool, for instance, automatically creates MANIFEST.MF when using -c.

Looks like our default action should be to do the same, if/when the archive is represented as(JavaArchive.class), else not?

S,

ALR

[pskopek]

I suggest it for every archive which extends ManifestContainer<?>.

Peter

[alrubinger]

Dig it.  Should also be in the JavaDocs of these aggregate views.

Please open up a JIRA Feature Request.

S,

ALR

[davided80]

Hi,

I've created a ManifestAsset class that you can find on github:

https://github.com/DavideD/shrinkwrap/blob/SHRINKDESC-15/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/shrinkwrap/api/asset/ManifestAsset.java

Using it right now is possible to add all the main attributes in a JAR Manifest.

I did it for work and because I wanted to try git but I would be happy to contribute to the project and change whatever you think is wrong.

Thanks for the great work,

Davide