Updating application.xml within ear

[veitg]

Hi.

I've got an already packaged production .ear. My plan is to add test classes to have a nearly-production like deployment.

For this I add a test.jar with all test jar's I need. When I add it via:

{code}
@Deployment
public static EnterpriseArchive deploy() {
EnterpriseArchive ear = IntegrationTest.deploy();
JavaArchive archive = ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class,"tests.jar") 
.addClasses(TestDocumentCreatedEventProcessor.class, EventServiceIT.class, IntegrationTest.class)
.addAsResource("META-INF/beans.xml");
System.out.println(archive.toString(true));
ear.addAsModule(archive);
System.out.println(ear.toString(true));
return ear;
}
{code}

I would expected, that the given test.jar will be added to the existing application.xml. But it doesn't. Is that a bug or by design ?

Theoretically addAsModule has all information it needs to perform this task or am I missing something?

How would I perform a modification of the existing application.xml?

BTW: IntegrationTest.deploy() reads the production .ear via ShrinkWrap.createFromZipFile().

Thanks

Veit

[veitg]

Ok, I'll figured it out. For everyone who's interested - that works for me:

{code}
...
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ear.addAsModule(archive);

Node node = ear.get("META-INF/application.xml");

DescriptorImporter importer =  Descriptors.importAs(ApplicationDescriptor.class, "test");
ApplicationDescriptor desc = (ApplicationDescriptor) importer.from(node.getAsset().openStream());

// seems that ejbModule/javaModule simply appends. that violates the xsd. so removing probably existing library-directory
// and adding it later on
String xml = desc.exportAsString();
xml = xml.replaceAll("<library-directory>lib<\\/library-directory>", "");

desc = (ApplicationDescriptor) importer.from(xml);
desc.javaModule("tests.jar");
desc.libraryDirectory("lib");

Asset asset = new StringAsset(desc.exportAsString());

ear.delete(node.getPath());
ear.setApplicationXML(asset);

return ear;
{code}
BTW: I HATE this editor.