> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garima Bathla [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Maven "classifier" ==> Ivy "?"
>
> Interesting question and I just bumped into an answer for
> this question last night in my own little research.
>
> In IVY there is a concept of classifier , but this is only
> valid within a dependency - and you have to map classifier to
> your namespace to make sure ivy.xsd doesn't complains about
> malformed xml
>
> So to precisely solve your problem you will have to do the following :
>
> 1. Change the resolver artifact pattern to include
> classifier in it - this will help ivy to replace a classifier
> with a value from ivy.xml if it exists , if it doesn't it
> will be ignored (anything in parenthesis is optional).
>
>
> [organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision](-[cla
> ssifier]).[ext]
>
> 2. Change your module descriptor such that you explicityly
> mention that you do not want to download source, but only binaries:
>
> <dependency org="commons-lang" name="commons-lang" rev="2.0">
> <artifact name="commons-lang" type="jar"/>
> <!-- <artifact name="common-lang" type="source" ext="jar"
> m:classifier="sources"/> --> -- This is exactly you should
> not have in your ivy.xml
> </dependency>
>
> So this way of writing ivy.xml tells ivy explicitly what to
> do with classifier - in this case since you will not be using
> it ivy will only download artifacts of type-> jar and not ALL.
That works, however it was not necessary to change the dependency.
Just changing the pattern appears to make it ignore anything with
a classifier unless the classifier is explicitly requested.
For reference, here's my ivysettings.xml. Nothing changed in ivy.xml
<ivysettings>
<settings defaultResolver="public"/>
<caches defaultCacheDir="${ivy.settings.dir}/cache"/>
<resolvers>
<ibiblio name="public"
m2compatible="true"
usepoms="false"
root="http://devlinux01:8081/nexus/content/groups/public";
pattern="[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision](-[classifier]).[ext]"/>
</resolvers>
</ivysettings>
Thanks for the quick response. For an apparently low-traffic list,
getting helpful answers in minutes is amazing! I hope I can contribute
as my knowledge increases :-)
