I have an ant build that is triggered by eclipse when project files
are saved. The ant build depends on various ant tasks that are
resolved via the ivy cachepath task. The problem is the resolve task
re-executes even when dependencies are already cached under the .ivy
directory. Is there a way to shortcut the dependency resolution when
there is already information in the cache?
This was my initial build file (for the sake of argument assume
test-contrib is a useful thing when saving files in an IDE).
<target name="-resolve-build-dependencies">
<ivy:resolve>
<ivy:cachepath
pathid="build.classpath"
conf="build" />
</target>
<target name="-define-build-dependencies"
depends="-resolve-build-dependencies">
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"
uri="http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks";>
<classpath refid="build.classpath" />
</taskdef>
</target>
<target name="test-contrib" depends="-define-build-dependencies"
<ac:osfamily property="os.family" />
<echo message="${os.family}" />
</target>
The resolve tasks was always being executed. I read that cachepath
task would indeed shortcut
the resolution of dependencies if it was given an organisation and
module attribute.
So my resolve-build-dependencies task was changed to this:
<target name="-resolve-build-dependencies">
<ivy:info/>
<ivy:cachepath
organisation="${ivy.organisation}"
module="${ivy.module}"
pathid="build.classpath"
conf="build" />
</target>
However when the cache gets blown away by the cleancache task (say)
this will not work because it is
not doing the resolution anymore. I therefore get the following error:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Report file
'/Users/frank/.ivy2/cache/com.example-appconfig-build.xml' does not
exist.
I tried using cachepaths ability to do resolution by supplying the
file attribute.
<target name="-resolve-build-dependencies">
<ivy:info/>
<ivy:cachepath
organisation="${ivy.organisation}"
module="${ivy.module}"
file="${ivy.dep.file}"
pathid="build.classpath"
conf="build" />
</target>
However this only works when organisation and module are not provided,
in which case we are
back to the situation where we always resolve dependencies even when
it is not necessary. If organisation and module are provided with the
file attribute then we get the error again.
Is there some way to prevent ivy from resolving dependencies
unnecessarily? I guess its possible
to write out some property to a file and check for it before running
resolve task, but this seems messy
and something that could be managed more elegantly by ivy internally.
It seems an issue similar to this was raised in JIRA back in 06/07. I
wondered if it has been addressed since?
Thanks,
Frank
