Add exclude*, parameters to copy mojo (analogous to copy-dependencies mojo)
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Key: MDEP-182
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-182
Project: Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: copy
Affects Versions: 2.1
Reporter: Thorsten Möller
Assignee: Brian Fox
Today I came around a use case that I miss in the copy goal/mojo of the
dependency plugin. Currently, it is not possible (at least I could not find any
documentation) to resolve transitive dependencies when copying an artifact nor
to specify whether transitive dependencies should be included or excluded. This
should be extended analogous to the copy-dependencies mojo.
Example: Say we want to copy Retrotranslator including its dependencies.
Currently we would have to use the following declarations
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>net.sf.retrotranslator</groupId>
<artifactId>retrotranslator-runtime</artifactId>
<version>${retrotranslator-version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
</artifactItem>
<!-- Transitive dependency of
Retrotranslator. Unfortunately, not automatically included. -->
<artifactItem>
<groupId>backport-util-concurrent</groupId>
<artifactId>backport-util-concurrent</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
This has the downside that all dependencies must be explicitly listed and
artifact versions must be kept consistent, which is "unwished maintenance
work". More convenient would be a declaration as follows
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>net.sf.retrotranslator</groupId>
<artifactId>retrotranslator-runtime</artifactId>
<version>${retrotranslator-version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
<!-- Force to include *all*
transitive dependencies. They should be copied to the same output directory. -->
<excludeTransitive>false</excludeTransitive>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
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