Automatic reference of dependee projects
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Key: MECLIPSE-197
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-197
Project: Maven 2.x Eclipse Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: dependency resolution
Reporter: Alessandro Evangelista
Attachments: referenceDependeeProjects-patch.txt
It would very useful to have the ability to automatically reference dependee
project for which the project source code is locally found.
Let's assume that module y depends on module x. The project description of
module y will contain directly or indirectly - i.e. transitively - a dependency
to module x.
The execution of the goal "eclipse:eclipse" on the module y would normally
generate an eclipse project with a jar dependency to module x.
Often it is convenient to directly reference the module x as eclipse project to
allow concurrent modification and compilation of both module x and y.
The attached patch allows to automatically reference projects if the dependee
project's source code is found in same directory as the dependent project. A
project is a candidate match if the group-id and artifact-id properties of the
two project equal and the two version equal or the dependee's version is the
requested version but SNAPSHOT tagged.
Example of directory structure:
/usr/src/product/com.company.product.x/pom.xml
/usr/src/product/com.company.product.y/pom.xml
The feature can be enabled via the maven's boolean property
eclipse.referenceDependeeProjects
The property default value is false and therefore the feature is disabled per
default.
The following is an example of execution with the feature enabled:
# mvn eclipse:eclipse -Declipse.referenceDependeeProjects=true
Currently it is assumed that the dependee project sources are within a
directory named after the project's artifact-id.
Future extensions could consider the more general maven's version matching
strategy - is this coded anywhere specific in maven's source code? - and
possibly allowing for locating the dependee source in directories with generic
names or paths.
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