Hi Brian, Could you please add this as an idea to the forum so we can track it?
We have long term plans for credential management, but supporting lazy evaluation may be a cheap and effective interim solution. On 02/12/2011, at 4:15 PM, "Carr, Brian M" <[email protected]> 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 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
