Andreas Voigtmann wrote:

 

Trying to match some patterns in e.g. xml files and exclude certain files.

The <when> condition supports logical operators, but how do they work?

Example below does not work as expected.

As well, removing the <and>/<not> from the when part and attempting to

handle this using the regexp for the filenamepattern, I did not succeed.

 

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

<rule id="myRule">

<when>

<and>

<filecontent pattern="myPattern" filename="{namepattern}.xml" />

<not>

<file filename="pom.xml" />

</not>

</and>

</when>

<perform>

<hint title="myRule: title" effort="1" category-id="mandatory">

<message>...</message>

</hint>

</perform>

<where param="namepattern">

<!-- <matches pattern="((?!pom)(.*))"/> -->

<matches pattern="(.*)"/>

</where>

</rule>

Generally all when conditions have implicitly <and> by default so not required to have it there. And using <not> is negating not a condition but just that one, I would omit it and I think this should work for you

      <rule id="myRule">
            <when>
                <filecontent pattern="pathToRoot" filename="{pattern}.xml"/>
            </when>
            <perform>
                <hint title="myRule: title" effort="1" category-id="mandatory">
                    <message>Something was caught</message>
                </hint>
            </perform>
            <where param="pattern">
                <matches pattern="([^pom]*)"/>
            </where> 
        </rule>