excludePaths should allow excluding paths on all folder levels

[chraxo]

Current situation

Currently the excludePaths argument filters only the exact specified path and does not allow filtering for all folders on all subfolder levels.

Example:

C:\dev\my-app> puml-gen -excludePaths obj 

This call excludes C:\dev\my-app\obj, but it does not exclude for example C:\dev\my-app\projectAbc\obj.

When using PlantUmlClassDiagramGenerator with a solution that contains multiple projects, this leads to a quite long list of excludePaths. Also, when new projects are added, or an existing project is renamed, then each time the excludePaths have to be adapted.

Proposal

It should be possible to generically filter all folders with a specific name, independent of the subfolder level where it is located.

Therefore wildcard characters should be allowed, such as known from .gitignore. For example to skip all obj folders on all levels the following parameter could be used:

puml-gen -excludePaths **/obj

Benefits:

• Increases the flexibility.
• The pattern is widely known.
• No breaking api change.
• The change is relatively easy to implement.

I would be happy to provide the implementation, if you agree with such a change.

[hugh-maaskant]

I have the same issue, so please consider this an up-vote :-)