Re: Trying to extract Selenium Server in Windows = META-INF\license : could not create directory

[Mike Riley]

Why?  You simply run it:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar [options]

Mike

On Friday, January 25, 2013 1:33:16 PM UTC-8, chrismcc...@gmail.com wrote:

I am new to Selenium and currently trying to extract the server jar file (selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar) on a Windows 7 PC and I am getting an error that I think is due to the fact that Windows is not case sensitive and the extraction is trying to create a directory META-INF\license when a directory META-INF\LICENSE already exists.  Does anyone know how to get around this?  Someone extracting on Windows had to have come across this...Thanks!

-Chris

 

$ jar -xvf selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar

..

..

 inflated: org/cyberneko/html/xercesbridge/XercesBridge_2_3.class
java.io.IOException: META-INF\license : could not create directory
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.extractFile(Main.java:909)
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract(Main.java:852)
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:242)
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1149)

 

$ jar -xvf selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar META-INF/LICENSE
 inflated: META-INF/LICENSE.txt
 inflated: META-INF/LICENSE

$ jar -xvf selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar META-INF/license
java.io.IOException: META-INF\license : could not create directory
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.extractFile(Main.java:909)
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.extract(Main.java:887)
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.run(Main.java:236)
        at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:1149)

 

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Its a windows 7 PC, so have you tried Winzip/Winrar/7 Zip and see if that helps ? If all that you are interested in doing is merely extract the contents of the jar, then it shouldnt really matter how you are extracting the contents of a jar right ?

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Bradford Thorn]

Came accross this issue while working with the standalone. It's because there is a "LICENSE" file and a "license" folder in the same directory, which is a conflict under Windows. What I ended up doing was using 7-Zip to go in and rename the LICENSE files to LICENSE.file both in the root and in the META-INF directory. Don't know if doing this causes any problems, but haven't seen any so far, and should allow the extraction command to work.

[Evan Burrows]

I know this is a really old thread but I am seeing this now.  Is this something that we can fix in the repo itself?  I am pushing to a PaaS and it is throwing this area and I would prefer not to rebuild the jar file after every update.  Thoughts?