From fee075fba76c3900190305845e25190209929a17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joris Dauphin <Jarod42@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:29:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow to use wildcard for `buildinputs`. (#2150)

* Allow to use wildcard for `buildinputs`.

* Add UTs for `kind = "file"` for `api.register`
---
 src/_premake_init.lua        |  2 +-
 tests/_tests.lua             |  1 +
 tests/api/test_file_kind.lua | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/api/test_file_kind.lua

diff --git a/src/_premake_init.lua b/src/_premake_init.lua
index e072ed121e..88d6090bc4 100644
--- a/src/_premake_init.lua
+++ b/src/_premake_init.lua
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 	api.register {
 		name = "buildinputs",
 		scope = "config",
-		kind = "list:path",
+		kind = "list:file",
 		tokens = true,
 		pathVars = false,
 	}
diff --git a/tests/_tests.lua b/tests/_tests.lua
index 34ec6f69de..80e2e07687 100644
--- a/tests/_tests.lua
+++ b/tests/_tests.lua
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ return {
 	"api/test_boolean_kind.lua",
 	"api/test_containers.lua",
 	"api/test_directory_kind.lua",
+	"api/test_file_kind.lua",
 	"api/test_list_kind.lua",
 	"api/test_path_kind.lua",
 	"api/test_register.lua",
diff --git a/tests/api/test_file_kind.lua b/tests/api/test_file_kind.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a9c2a9bc7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/api/test_file_kind.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+--
+-- tests/api/test_file_kind.lua
+-- Tests the file API value type.
+-- Copyright (c) 2023 the Premake project
+--
+
+local p = premake
+local suite = test.declare("api_file_kind")
+local api = p.api
+
+--
+-- Setup and teardown
+--
+
+function suite.setup()
+	api.register {
+		name = "testapi",
+		kind = "file",
+		list = true,
+		scope = "project"
+	}
+	test.createWorkspace()
+end
+
+function suite.teardown()
+	testapi = nil
+end
+
+--
+-- Values should be converted to absolute paths,
+-- relative to the currently running script.
+--
+function suite.convertsToAbsolute()
+	testapi "self/local"
+
+	test.isequal({os.getcwd() .. "/self/local"}, api.scope.project.testapi)
+end
+
+
+--
+-- Check expansion of wildcards.
+--
+function suite.expandsWildcards()
+	testapi (_TESTS_DIR .. "/api/*")
+
+	test.istrue(table.contains(api.scope.project.testapi, _TESTS_DIR .. "/api/test_file_kind.lua"))
+end