What kinds of features would this enable within the Apache Beam SDK or
allow for users to write (looking for some reason as to why this is not
just a one off change to support a use case)?
Would it list all the transitive dependencies?
How would you test that it works?
On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a use case where I would resolve beam classpath programmatically. I
> wonder if it would be possible to add in META-INF (or BEAM-INF, in the jar
> is the main request ;)) a dependencies.txt (or other file) listing all the
> mandatory dependencies. I'm mainly interested by the java sdk core module
> but can be beneficial to others as well.
>
> With maven it is just a matter of defining:
>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>${dependency-plugin.version}</version>
> <executions>
> <execution>
> <id>create-META-INF/dependencies.txt</id>
> <phase>prepare-package</phase>
> <goals>
> <goal>list</goal>
> </goals>
> <configuration>
>
> <outputFile>${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF/dependencies.txt</outputFile>
> </configuration>
> </execution>
> </executions>
> </plugin>
>
> with gradle it is a loop around a resolvedconfiguration which dumps the
> artifacts in a maven format (group:name:type:version)
>
> My interest of it being in beam is to be able to upgrade beam without
> having to re-release these metadata.
>
> Is it something the project could be interested in?
>
> Romain Manni-Bucau
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