Suppose the layout of the js files is like this:

src

|- code.js

|- a_sub_folder

|- code.js

test

|-test.js

In the jstd conf file, if we want to load all the js files in "src" folder and jstd 1.3.5 is used, we can use:

load:

  - src/*.js

Note that, it will not only load all the js files that are under "src" folder directly but also those in the "a_sub_folder". src/**/*.js can also be used and the result would be the same.

The tricky part here is when you use following pattern:

load:

  - src/code.js

We would expected to load code.js under src folder but not code.js under src/a_sub_folder/code.js. Actually both code.js file will be loaded. Since the files are loaded in alphabetic order, src/a_sub_folder/code.js will be loaded first and the src/code.js. (Note "a_sub_folder" starts with "a" and "code.js" start with "c").

It seems there is no way that you can load "src/code.js" only. If "src/a_sub_folder/code.js" is depends on "src/code.js", there will be errors when running test. That would be a big problem if you're working with legacy code and you don't want to make a restructure for jstd support.

This is due to the PathResovler class when expanding globs

private String[] expandGlob(String filePath, String fileNamePattern, File dir) {
	FilenameFilter fileFilter = new GlobFilenameFilter(fileNamePattern,
			GlobCompiler.DEFAULT_MASK | GlobCompiler.CASE_INSENSITIVE_MASK);
	String[] filteredFiles = expandDeepDirectoryGlobPaths(dir, fileFilter, "").toArray(new String[0]);

	if (filteredFiles == null || filteredFiles.length == 0) {
		return null;
	}
	Arrays.sort(filteredFiles, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
	return filteredFiles;
}

Following test I added in PathResovlerTest confirms this assertion

public void testDoGlobingEvenIfNoWildCardCharacter() throws Exception {
    File dir = tmpDirs.iterator().next();
    File codeDir = createTmpSubDir("code", dir);
    createTmpFile(dir, "code.js");
    createTmpFile(codeDir, "code.js");

    String configFile = "load:\n - code.js";
    ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(configFile.getBytes());
    ConfigurationParser parser = new YamlParser();

    Configuration config = parser.parse(new InputStreamReader(bais), null).resolvePaths(
            new PathResolver(tmpDirs, Collections.<FileParsePostProcessor>emptySet(), new DisplayPathSanitizer()), createFlags());
    Set<FileInfo> files = config.getFilesList();
    List<FileInfo> listFiles = new ArrayList<FileInfo>(files);

    assertEquals(2, files.size());
    assertTrue(listFiles.get(0).getFilePath().replace(File.separatorChar, '/').endsWith("code.js"));
    assertTrue(listFiles.get(1).getFilePath().replace(File.separatorChar, '/').endsWith("code/code.js"));
}