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> Hi Ken,
>
> I think it would be a good addition to support wildcards for the classpath
> option. That makes life much easier if you want to specify multiple jars to
> be included in the classpath. If you want to take the lead here, then it
> would be great :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Till
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:43 AM, Ken Krugler <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> If I want to include all of the jars in a directory, I thought I could do
>> --classpath file://<path to directory/*, the same as with the -cp option for
>> a regular java program.
>>
>> But this doesn’t seem to work. I believe it’s because JDK tools do the
>> expansion before creating the URLs used by the classloader, but Flink code
>> doesn’t do any such special processing, and just creates URLs - see
>> ProgramOptions.java, via classpaths.add(new URL(path));
>>
>> Should I file an issue w/a patch? Or is there some reason to not support
>> wildcards?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> — Ken
>>
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