Add configuration option to use an extended revision id when resolving eclipse
projects
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Key: IVYDE-235
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVYDE-235
Project: IvyDE
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: classpath container
Affects Versions: 2.0.0.final
Reporter: Jeffrey M. Metcalf
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 2.1.0
The current resolve code in IvyDE leverages the default revision id of the form
[org]-[module] in the resolution cache. A custom revision id cannot be
currently specified in the Ivy ResolveOptions as it can effectively be done via
the API and in the ant tasks. This leads to resolution cache collisions when
more than project exist on the same module in the eclipse workspace.
A standard technique to improve workspace dependency resolution is to leverage
the revision attribute in the module descriptor (and the branch attribute as
proposed in IVYDE-234). However this technique has limitations due to the
aforementioned resolution cache collision which force the developer to manually
re-resolve affected projects to ensure that the workspace dependencies (as well
as the classpath container) are properly computed. By allowing the developer
to optionally cache and load resolve reports using an extended resolve id that
uses more information found in the attributes of the module descriptor,
resolution cache collisions can be avoided.
A configuration option on the global configuration page under the classpath
configuration submenu is proposed: specifically a boolean checkbox underneath
the 'Resolve dependencies in the workspace' checkbox. This new boolean would
default to false (unchecked) and would be titled 'Use extended resolve id in
the resolution cache'.
To ensure the lowest probability of resolution cache collision, the proposed
forms of the extended revision id against the contents of the unpublished
module descriptor info tag are as follows:
<info organisation="myorg" module="mymod" branch="mybranch" revision="2.1"
status="milestone"/>
resolveId = myorg-mymod-milestone-mybranch-2.1
<info organisation="myorg" module="mymod" revision="3"/>
resolveId = myorg-mymod-integration--3
<info organisation="myorg" module="mymod"/>
resolveId = [email protected]
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