Outputting dependency resolution/tree in a well known _machine readable_ output
format
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MDEP-145
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-145
Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: resolve, tree
Affects Versions: 2.0
Reporter: Samuel Le Berrigaud
Assignee: Brian Fox
Currently (at least on trunk) one can output the dependencies in a file.
However the file output doesn't follow any specific format, except from being
the exact same output than on the console.
I would be nice to have an easily parse-able, format so that tools could
leverage the dependency resolution/tree. I am thinking for example of
continuous integration tools that could report on added/removed/updated
dependencies on modules.
The format could be xml, json or something else. I've been playing with the
current output to make it so that:
* the first line describes the current module for which dependency resolution
is done, formatted as such: {{<groupId>:<artifactId>:<packaging>:<version>}}
* every following line is a dependency (indented by 2 or more spaces),
formatted as such: {{<groupId>:<artifactId>:<packaging>:<version>:<scope>}}
This already is easy to parse.
What do you think?
--
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators:
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
