Hello, I am trying to run a Java application using Ant and Ivy as follows:
build.xml <project ...> <target name="run"> <ivy:configure file="./ivy-settings.xml" /> <ivy:resolve conf="default" /> <ivy:cachepath conf="default" pathId="run.classpath" /> <java classname="Foo" ... /> </target> </project> In my application I have the following modules: Module A (ivy.xml) <dependencies> <dependency org="myorg" name="module-B" transitive="true" /> </dependencies> Module B (ivy.xml) <dependencies> <dependency org="commons-lang" name="commons-lang" rev="2.4" transitive="false" /> <dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-beans" rev="3.0.6.RELEASE" transitive="false" conf="*->master" /> ... </dependencies> When I try to run the application with "ant run", I am expecting Ivy to add the following jars to the classpath: module-B.jar commons-lang-2.4.jar spring-beans-3.0.6.RELEASE.jar However, apparently Ivy is trying to include the above 3 dependencies as well as all the dependencies of the spring-beans module. The list of transitive dependencies is extensive and trying to resolve all of these adds a lot of unnecessary overhead to my build process. Also, my run target is failing because I do not have all the necessary dependencies for compiling Spring, and I don't plan to because I am not compiling Spring but only relying on a small subset of its dependencies. What appears to be happening is that for any dependencies of my top-level module that have transitive="true", Ivy is including all dependencies transitively regardless of the transitive attribute of dependencies in the dependent module's ivy.xml file. It seems that Ivy is undesirably ignoring or overriding my transitive attributes for dependencies of dependent modules (i.e. "sub-dependencies"). I do not want to include those dependencies on my classpath, and I do not want Ivy to try to resolve them. I want Ivy to include any immediate dependencies of the module I am trying to run. I want Ivy to include transitive dependencies only if these dependencies that have transitive="true". For example: Module A depends on Module B (transitive = true) Module B depends on Module C (transitive = false), Module D (transitive = true) Module C depends on Module E, Module F Module D depends on Module G, Module H If I call <ivy:cachepath> for Module A, I would like the following dependencies to be added to the path: Module B Module C Module D Module G Module H Would someone please let me know if/how this can be accomplished? Many thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Ivy-transitive-dependencies-question-tp32503927p32503927.html Sent from the ivy-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
