Allow more control around the configuration and use of optional dependencies
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Key: MNG-2984
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2984
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Dependencies
Affects Versions: 2.0.6
Reporter: Paul Spencer
This request is based on the following posting to the users mailing list.
How can I include a dependency's optional dependency without
adding the optional dependency to the pom?
As an example, shale-test has an optional dependency on commons-digester. Since
my application does not use commons-digester, I do not have it defined as
a dependency in the pom. When the test that used shale-test failed I had to
determine the failure was due to a missing dependency that was defined in
shale-test's
pom. Thus the following questions.
1) Is their a way I can include all of a dependencies optional dependencies
without knowing what they are?
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.shale</groupId>
<artifactId>shale-test</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<includeOptionalDependencies all="true"/> <!-- Just a guess to
illustrate the intent -->
<dependency>
2) Is their a way I can include selected optional dependencies for a dependency?
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.shale</groupId>
<artifactId>shale-test</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<includeOptionalDependencies> <!-- Just a guess to illustrate the
intent -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
</dependency>
</includeOptionalDependencies>
<dependency>
3) Can optional dependencies be grouped to allow for the inclusion of a
named group of optional dependencies, thus freeing the user from
having to know and maintain a list of optional dependencies to
include?
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.shale</groupId>
<artifactId>shale-test</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<includeOptionalDependencies group="FunctionalGroup1"/> <!-- Just
a guess to illustrate the intent -->
<dependency>
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