Ivy Resolve Visualizer
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Key: IVYDE-208
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE-208
Project: IvyDE
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Jon Schneider
I am kind of excited about this one. I would like to be able to see the
resolve report depicted graphically, showing me clearly how particular
dependencies wound up on the classpath, what nodes got evicted, what
dependencies a particular transitive dependency has, etc etc. Ivy can
sometimes fall into the category of "automagically" doing so much for us on the
classpath, that developers can take it for granted. Especially when a version
conflict arises out of a resolution (by which two different revisions are
resolved that aren't under the same eviction context), I see developers getting
very confused. I hope this visualization will help them understand.
So far I have built this visualizer with the following features:
1. Automatic highlights of:
- Shortest path to root
- All paths to root
- All callers
- All dependencies
- Other revisions
2. Filtering options:
- Hide evictions
- Limit depth (only show up to the n-th level transitive dependency)
- Hide selection
3. Focusing:
- Focus on an ivy classpath container
- Focus on a selection
4. Zooming
5. Print screen
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