Jasmine Maven Plugin including my scripts using file protocol

Question

I'm trying to add javascript unit testing to our project and found out about the Jasmine Maven Plugin. I followed the directions and ended up with this in my pom.xml:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.searls</groupId>
    <artifactId>jasmine-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0.0</version>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>test</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <jsSrcDir>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/resources/js</jsSrcDir>
        <jsTestSrcDir>${project.basedir}/src/test/javascript</jsTestSrcDir>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

I run mvn jasmine:bdd and get the expected output. I then go to http://localhost:8234 and all I get is a blank screen. I look in the console and see this for each of my js files:

Not allowed to load local resource: file:///absolute/path/to/the/js/src/main/webapp/resources/js/myJS.js

The HTML for the page is including my scripts like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="file:/absolute/path/to/the/js/src/main/webapp/resources/js/myJS.js"></script>

So my question is, why is the plugin using the file protocol to inculde the js? Is this how it usually works? If so, how do I get my browser to allow the local resource? Is there any way to prevent it from doing this?

Just in case it matters, I tried this with both Firefox and Chrome, and I am using OS X.

Answer 1

I ran into this issue recently and the problem was that my project was in a directory that had spaces in it.

This was on windows but it might be the same on OSX so it's worth a try.

So for instance my project was in a directory like this:

C:\directory with spaces\myproject

Changing it to the following fixed the jasmine:bdd command:

C:\directorywithoutspaces\myproject

Good luck!