requires public for automatic modules

[Paul Bakker]

Hello,

I'm experimenting with automatic modules again. I have a module "demonstrator" 
that uses Jackson Databind.

        import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
        ....
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); 
        String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(modularityBook); 

In module-info.java I have the following:

        requires jackson.databind;

On the modulepath I have jackson.core, jackson.databind and jackson.annotations.
Building results in an error:
        
         class file for com.fasterxml.jackson.core.Versioned not found

This makes sense because the ObjectMapper class that I'm using implements the 
Versioned interface (from jackson.core).
When generating a module-info.java using jdeps for the jackson.databind JAR 
however, it generates the following:

        requires public jackson.annotations; 
        requires public jackson.core;

This is much closer to what I would expect when using the jackson.databind 
module.
When using jackson.databind as an automatic module, I will end up with a list 
of requires for transitive dependencies that I shouldn't have to care about.
Why don't automatic modules take better care of transitive dependencies, so 
that the application's module-info looks similar to what it would after 
transforming the dependencies to named modules?

Also, jdeps doesn't actually show this problem when looking at the code when 
still on the classpath:

        jdeps -cp lib/jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar 
out/com/javamodularity/demonstrator/Demo.class
        
        Demo.class -> lib/jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
        Demo.class -> java.base
           com.javamodularity.demonstrator (Demo.class)
              -> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind                     
jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
              -> java.io
              -> java.lang

Best regards,

Paul Bakker