Hi John,
John Kramer wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I have a question regarding the maven dependencies section.
>
> In order to put a dependency on a test jar, is it correct to specify
> <type>test-jar</type> or <type>test</type>?
test-jar, test does not exist. However, I typically declare always both:
"type" and "classifier" ("tests" here).
> I specified a dependency on project bar from project foo using
> <type>test<test> in a dependency section and the maven eclipse plugin ran
> successfully and eclipse set up my projects so that the module recognizes,
Because the maven-eclipse-plugin ignores classifiers, since Eclipise has no
concept for it. The plugin can only link Eclipse projects.
> but mvn package gives the following error:
>
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project statistics: Could not resolve
> [dependencies for project com.mojiva:foo:jar:1.9.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not
> [find artifact com.mojiva:bar:test:1.9.0-SNAPSHOT in mojiva
>
> If I change it, to test-jar, the error goes away.
>
> I know I have used <type>test</type> in the past and not had an issue.
> Did it change?
No. Did you use classifier "tests" in the past?
> Also, I can't find the documentation on this. A pointer to the docs would
> be helpful.
>
> Thanks to all!
- Jörg
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