fingerprint-maven-plugin

Maven plugin for web resources optimization

About

This plugin performs several optimizations:

• Resource fingerprinting.
• JS/CSS minification. yuicompressor is used
• html minification.

Requires Java 8 +

Fingerprinting

During this process plugin calculates file checksum and prepends it to the file name. All links to this filename will be changed to the fingerprinted version. Original file will be deleted. Fingerprinting used to improve web resource caching. If file checksum is not changed, then the name will be the same and it is safe to add max expires header. Once file contents are changed, checksum will be changed as well. This plugin filters out (recursivly) source directory, detects any resources using the patterns below and copy result (if needed) to the target directory.

The following patterns are used to detect resources eligible for fingerprinting:

• <link.*?href="(.*?)".*?>
• "([^\\s]*?\\.js)"
• <img.*?src="(.*?)".*?>
• url\("(.*?)"\)
• <c:url.*?value=\")([/{1}|\\.{1,2}].*?)(\".*?>
• fromUrl:\\s*[\",'])(.*?)([\",']

After fingerprinting it is safe to add max expires header.

Requirements

• All resources should point to existing files without any pre-processing:
  • Valid: <img src="/img/test.png">
  • Invalid: <img src="<c:if test="${var}">/img/test.png</c:if>"

HTML minification

During html minification:

• all space between tags will be removed. Except pre.
• type="text" will be removed from input tags since it's default type.

Configuration

• Configure plugin in pom.xml:

			<plugin>
				<groupId>com.aerse.maven</groupId>
				<artifactId>fingerprint-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>1.2</version>
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<phase>package</phase>
						<goals>
							<goal>generate</goal>
						</goals>
					</execution>
				</executions>
				<configuration>
					<excludeResources>
						<excludeResource>://</excludeResource>
						<excludeResource>//</excludeResource>
						<excludeResource>data:</excludeResource>
					</excludeResources>
<!-- ${basedir}/src/main/webapp by default -->
					<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/target/webcombined</sourceDirectory>
<!-- ${project.build.directory}/optimized-webapp by default -->
					<targetDirectory>${basedir}/target/optimized-webapp</targetDirectory>
					<includes>
						<include>**/*.html</include>
						<include>**/*.jsp</include>
						<include>**/*.tag</include>
						<include>**/*.css</include>
						<include>**/*.js</include>
					</includes>
					<excludes>
						<exclude>toIgnore/**</exclude>
					</excludes>
<!-- cdn host. Not required. For example using "//accountname.r.worldssl.net": /css/bootstrap.css -> //accountname.r.worldssl.net/css/<md5>bootstrap.css -->
					<!-- Need to be (group1 before url)(group2 url)(group3 after url) -->
					<patterns>
						<pattern>(customUrlPattern=\\s*[\",'])(.*?)([\",'])</pattern>
					</patterns>
					<cdn>${cdn}</cdn>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>

• Configure apache or nginx with max expires header. The following example is the configuration for nginx:

        location ~ ^/.+\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|jar|png|js|css|txt|epf|ttf|svg|woff)$ {
            root         <your root content>;
            expires max;
            add_header Cache-Control public;
        }