[bugfix] Set EXIST_HOME so system:get-exist-home() returns a value. - #6607
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Apparently, the function can be called as guest. Please ensure that only DBA is allowed. I would like to see a test or two in XQuery. |
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Set EXIST_HOME so system:get-exist-home() returns a value when started with ./bin/startup.sh
There are probably a lot of quality issues on this file, explicitly not addressing these.
The actual change is in commit 1 ; commit 2 re-orders the loading.
fixes #6582
Summary
conf.xml was being found on the classpath (from test resources in target/test-classes) because the classpath lookup ran unconditionally before the file-based lookup, allowing it to shadow the real config file.
Changes
exist-core/src/main/java/org/exist/util/Configuration.java: Reversed the lookup order in the main constructor — file-based lookup now runs first; classpath is only tried as a fallback when no file is found. The error is thrown only after both strategies are exhausted.
Verification
Build: mvn install -pl exist-core -am -DskipTests — success.
Tests: ConfigurationTest — 10/10 passed.