If you can still use it twice, works for me, too. Either way, you'd need it both as a dependency and as an agent.
Another requirement Romain mentioned is the order of agent loading. Mockito wants to be first, and others can come later. - Ben On Wed, 18 Oct 2023, 00:11 Tamás Cservenák, <ta...@cservenak.net> wrote: > What about type=java-agent? Basically a new ArtifactHandler? > > See https://maven.apache.org/repositories/artifacts.html > > T > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 23:54 Benjamin Marwell <bmarw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > In a mockito issue, JDK maintainers suggested to differentiate between > > agents and normal dependencies. Starting with JDK 21 already, this makes > a > > lot of sense: dynamic loading of agents will be a no-go. > > > > One suggestion was: > > > > <dependencies> > > <dependency> > > ... > > </dependency> > > <agents> > > <dependency> > > ... > > </dependency> > > </agents> > > </dependencies> > > > > Not sure if this is the best way, but this is something similar might be > > needed. > > Currently, the only way to handle agents is to add them manually to the > > surefire argLine. To make things worse, a deoendency goal is needed until > > Romains PR is merged: > > https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1281 > > > > Another issue is that a parent pom might not be able to easily define > this > > option. There were some concerns that part of the configuration needed to > > be repeated in every module. > > > > So, I wrote Maven 5. > > Maven 4 is the stepping stone to the build/consumer pom. But this is an > > extension. Not really a breaking change in terms of parsing, but in terms > > of building a project. Thus, it should go onto the roadmap. > > > > ... unless you want to keep the current status quo, which is also an > > option. But before making an argument here, I'd recommend reading the > > lengthy (sorry!) discussion on the mockito issue tracker. Since Karl > Heinz > > started the issue, I'd love to hear back from you, too. Link: > > https://github.com/mockito/mockito/issues/3037 > > > > If no discussion is needed at this point, let's keep this as a reminder > for > > the next Apero and/or Maven 5 then. > > > > - Ben > > >
