[aspectj-dev] Issues with File.getAbsolutePath() and unit tests

[Jim Hugunin <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently discovered that many of the unit tests in 
org.aspectj.ajdt.ajc.BuildArgParserTestCase and in 
org.aspectj.ajde.StructureModelTest are failing for me.  These failures 
appear to be due to the behavior of File.getAbsolutePath().  My 
suspicion is that these failures are caused by recent changes to the 
structure model code to remove calls to File.getCanonicalPath().

These failures all come under Win XP using either jdk 1.4.2 or jdk 1.3.x 
from SUN.  I'm running the tests from within eclipse, and have not set 
up my environment to run the build and test suite from the command-line. 
 I don't have any more time this week to investigate this further, but 
next week I could probably get command-line build/test running to 
provide more info.

Here are the traces from two of the failures:

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 2, Size: 1
	at java.util.ArrayList.RangeCheck(ArrayList.java:486)
	at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:302)
	at 
org.aspectj.ajde.StructureModelTest.testPointcutName(StructureModelTest.java:93)
-----------------------------------------
junit.framework.ComparisonFailure: expected:<c...> but was:<C...>
	at junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:81)
	at junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals(Assert.java:87)
	at 
org.aspectj.ajdt.ajc.BuildArgParserTestCase.testSourceRootDirWithFiles(BuildArgParserTestCase.java:221)

The filenames that are failing to compare above differ only in the 
initial capitalization of the 'c', e.g.
c:\aspectj\workspace\org.aspectj.ajdt.core\testdata\ajc\pkg
    and
C:\aspectj\workspace\org.aspectj.ajdt.core\testdata\ajc\pkg

I didn't submit this to bugzilla as I'm currently unsure whether this is 
a testing infrastructure issue or a bug in the actual code.

-Jim