Can't exclude files by directory

[moatra]

For files that I can't load from WebJars, I typically commit them to my assets/javascripts/vendor directory. Not all of them will pass jshint's tests, so I'd like to exclude them from being linted.

I've tried a couple of approaches:

excludeFilter in (Assets, JshintKeys.jshint) := GlobFilter("*/vendor/*")

This doesn't work, since the filtering appears to work on file names rather than full paths.

managedSourceDirectories in (Assets, JshintKeys.jshint) := List((sourceDirectory in Compile).value / "assets" / "javascripts" / "vendor")

The only thing that seems to work is providing a pattern filter for excludeFilter that explicitly enumerates the files contained in the vendor directory, but this is ugly and doesn't scale well.

Is there a better option available?

Edit: Researching sbt's file filters further, I came up with the following. Not pretty, but I guess it gets the job done.

excludeFilter in (Assets, JshintKeys.jshint) := new FileFilter{ def accept(f: File) = ".*/vendor/.*".r.pattern.matcher(f.getAbsolutePath).matches }

[huntc]

Put them in the public folder...?

[magnusart]

Then Concat won't find the files (since they're not under assets). My scenario is to take all the files and concat them into a vendor.js-file.

[micmro]

Thanks @moatra, your suggestion worked for us. Tough it would be nice to be able to add them just like files.

E.g. using a syntax like:

excludeFilter in (Import.Assets, JshintKeys.jshint) := "*/lib/*"

instead of:

excludeFilter in (Assets, JshintKeys.jshint) := new FileFilter{
    def accept(f: File) = ".*/lib/.*".r.pattern.matcher(f.getAbsolutePath).matches
}

[dwickern]

I used this setting to exclude the public folder

excludeFilter in (Assets, JshintKeys.jshint) := {
  val public = (baseDirectory.value / "public").getCanonicalPath
  new SimpleFileFilter(_.getCanonicalPath startsWith public)
}