Merge source and include types so order can be preserved

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Issue by nedjs
Friday Mar 20, 2015 at 00:03 GMT
Originally opened as samaxes#93

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When aggregating multiple files some of which are already minified and shouldn't be hit with a 2nd round you might do the following

<jsSourceFiles>
    <jsSourceFile>app.js</jsSourceFile>
    <jsSourceFile>zones.js</jsSourceFile>
</jsSourceFiles>
<jsIncludeFiles>
    <jsIncludeFile>jquery.min.js</jsIncludeFile>
</jsIncludeFiles>

What happens is the source files get minified then merged with items listed inside jsIncludeFiles as expected from the documentation. The output file would be an aggregation of the files in the following order:

• app.js
• jquery.min.js
• zones.js

Of course if you have any JQuery references in app.js then your going to have problems.

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You might solve this by changing the xml structure to allow for includes and sources to be under the same tree. However I dont know how your code is operating behind the scenes so maybe a different option is more feasible.

Something like this:

<jsFiles>
    <jsIncludeFile>jquery.min.js</jsIncludeFile>
    <jsSourceFile>app.js</jsSourceFile>
    <jsSourceFile>zones.js</jsSourceFile>
</jsFiles>

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Comment by sniederb
Friday Jul 08, 2016 at 09:10 GMT

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I'm hitting the same problem. Defining a merge order while still using wildcards seems a rather common use case.

<jsSourceFiles>
    <jsSource>standard-lib1.js</jsSource>
    <jsSource>standard-lib2.js</jsSource>
    <jsSource>*Page.js</jsSource>
    <jsSource>backbone-router-def.js</jsSource>
</jsSourceFiles>

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There is now just the option includes, supporting wildcards. They are merged in the order as specified. So the following works:

<includes>
    <include>standard-lib1.js</include>
    <include>standard-lib2.js</include>
    <include>*Page.js</include>
    <include>backbone-router-def.js</include>
</includes>

Behind the scenes, this is what happens:

• Look for all matches matching standard-lib1.js, call them FILES_A
• Look for all matches matching standard-lib2.js, call them FILES_B
• Look for all matches matching *Page.js, call them FILES_C
• Look for all matches matching backbone-router-def.js, call them FILES_D
• Merge files in the order A-B-C-D.

If there are any duplicate files, take the first one.