This would be great, especially if it'd work with uploading artifacts. I had to
struggle a fair bit and do a lot of unpleasant hackery to get uploading
archives working with prompting for credentials (and this was against m3,
haven't dared try it with m6!)
On Dec 2, 2011, at 4:15 PM, Carr, Brian M wrote:
> This leads to a question I've been wondering about: Is it possible or
> reasonable to make the credentials closure lazy evaluated. Right now, it
> executes the closure whether or not it's necessary to download artifacts.
>
> I can imagine a scenario where you had a maven definition:
>
> maven {
> url 'foo.bar.com'
> credentials {
> username doSomeFancyLookup()
> password doAnotherFancyLookup()
> }
> }
>
> where the username and password properties could follow a resolution order.
> If the properties were set in gradle.properties or init.gradle, use those.
> If a console is available, use readPassword. If the jvm isn't headless, use
> Swing. or any other credential looking you might think of.
>
> This approach only makes sense if the properties are lazy-loaded though,
> otherwise they get executed on every build.
>
>
> --b
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Daz DeBoer wrote:
>
>> The first form (maven{}) is more idiomatic. The primary difference between
>> maven{} and mavenRepo() is that the latter returns the underlying ivy
>> DependencyResolver instance, which can be manipulated directly. Once we are
>> happy that maven{} supports all of the reasonable use cases for dependency
>> resolution, mavenRepo will likely be deprecated.
>>
>> The reason for this change is that we are moving away from exposing ivy as
>> part of our API. The motivation is that we want to be able to provide a
>> richer, more domain-specific api for dependency resolution, and not be tied
>> to the ivy API or implementation.
>>
>> One benefit to the maven{} syntax is that it provides the ability to
>> lazy-evaluate the url (and other) parameters, whereas the url parameter of
>> mavenRepo must be know at the time of declaring the repository.
>>
>> cheers
>> Daz
>>
>> On 2 December 2011 11:24, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Quick question as to whether one form is more idiomatic than the other:
>>
>> repositories {
>> mavenCentral ( )
>> maven { url 'http://repository.codehaus.org/' }
>> }
>>
>> or
>>
>> repositories {
>> mavenCentral ( )
>> mavenRepo url : 'http://repository.codehaus.org/'
>> }
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Russel.
>> =============================================================================
>> Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected]
>> 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected]
>> London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Darrell (Daz) DeBoer
>> Principal Engineer, Gradleware
>> http://www.gradleware.com
>>
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