Hi, we'd like to add an extra attribute to our <dependency> elements, that is used from our own tools to gain additional information about a dependency, but should have no significance to ivy whatsoever. This works without complaints for the <info> and <artifact> attributes to add data to a module or an artifact. For dependencies however I run into an error when resolving a module with such a decorated dependency.
In the ivy.xml: ... <dependency org="com.example" name="example" version="latest.integration" e:contract="provider" /> .. Output when resolved: :::: ERRORS public_repository: bad contract found in D:\resolvetests\repo\com.example\example\1\ivy.xml: expected='provider' found='null'. This message is coming from BasicResolver.checkDescriptorConsistency, because there is no attribute "contract" on the <info>-tag of com.example#example's ivy.xml (and it would make no sense to put it there). Basically I want the attribute to really describe the dependency and not the identity of the referenced module. Any suggestion? (We have considered providing our own custom parser, but we want to stay as close as possible to standard ivy.) Thank You, Tim Enderling
