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Jean-Louis Boudart updated IVY-1248:
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    Description: 
I recently discovered a bug in Module Inheritance feature (i.e. extends).

{code:xml} 
<extends organisation="net.foo" module="bar" revision="latest.integration" 
location="../myParent" extendTypes="configurations,dependencies"/>
{code}

The feature works fine if the parent descriptor is already published in your 
repository, it will use the MRID to retrieve the parent module. 
We also can use a "location" attribute (for dev mode) which defines where to 
find the parent descriptor. This can make particular sense if you need to share 
metadatas (dependencies, configurations, whatever)  across many subprojects.

If we get into technical details when "extend" element is found ivy will :
* check on filesystem if parent module exists (based on location attribute). If 
no location attribute is found ivy will look in the default one "../ivy.xml".
* if not found, it will check in the cache using MRID. However it just ignore 
the version attribute. To be exact it ask for WorkingRevision.
* if not found it will query repositories using the real MRID (here the version 
attribute is taken in consideration)
* if found it will try to flush the parent descriptor in the cache

Everything works :)

But when you invoke ivy:deliver (directly or through ivy:publish) ivy parse the 
resolved module descriptor in the cache. And the complication comes here.
Imagine you never publish the "parent module" in the repository. When you will 
invoke ivy:deliver / ivy:publish ivy will :
* parse your module descriptor (the one <extend>ing your parent) from the cache
* while parsing ivy will find the <extend> element and will try to locate the 
parent descriptor
* check the location attribute <-- fail because cache pattern is fully 
configurable in ivy and almost never match with the default value "../ivy.xml"
* check the cache with the given MRID (organisation="net.foo" module="bar" but 
with working revision ) <-- almost never find it
* check the repositories with the real mrid (organisation="net.foo" 
module="bar" revision="latest.revision") <-- fail as we never published our 
parent descriptor.
* deliver process will fail !

We never really encoutered the problem as this feature was developped in 
easyant context and we were doing a lot of stuff around this feature. In almost 
all cases parent descriptor was published by an other mechanism of easyant  in 
a "build scoped repository" (kind of filesystem based repository local to the 
project).

While refactoring the code in easyant i just realized that somethings was wrong.

  was:
I recently discovered a bug in Module Inheritance feature (i.e. extends).

{code:xml} 
<extends organisation="net.foo" module="bar" revision="latest.integration" 
location="../myParent" extendTypes="configurations,dependencies"/>
{code}

The feature works fine if the parent descriptor is already published in your 
repository, it will use the MRID to retrieve the parent module. 
We also can use a "location" attribute (for dev mode) which defines where to 
find the parent descriptor. This can make particular sense if you need to share 
metadatas (dependencies, configurations, whatever)  across many subprojects.

If we get into technical details when "extend" element is found ivy will :
* check on filesystem if parent module exists (based on location attribute). If 
no location attribute is found ivy will look in the default one "../ivy.xml".
* if not found, it will check in the cache using MRID. However it just ignore 
the version attribute. To be exact it ask for WorkingRevision.
* if not found it will query repositories using the real MRID (here the version 
attribute is taken in consideration)

Everything works :)

But when you invoke ivy:deliver (directly or through ivy:publish) ivy parse the 
resolved module descriptor in the cache. And the complication comes here.
Imagine you never publish the "parent module" in the repository. When you will 
invoke ivy:deliver / ivy:publish ivy will :
* parse your module descriptor (the one <extend>ing your parent) from the cache
* while parsing ivy will find the <extend> element and will try to locate the 
parent descriptor
* check the location attribute <-- fail because cache pattern is fully 
configurable in ivy and almost never match with the default value "../ivy.xml"
* check the cache with the given MRID (organisation="net.foo" module="bar" but 
with working revision ) <-- almost never find
* check the repositories with the real mrid (organisation="net.foo" 
module="bar" revision="latest.revision") <-- fail as we never published our 
parent descriptor.
* deliver process will fail !

We never really encoutered the problem as this feature was developped in 
easyant context and we were doing a lot of stuff around this feature. In almost 
all cases parent descriptor was published by an other mechanism of easyant  in 
a "build scoped repository" (kind of filesystem based repository local to the 
project).

While refactoring the code in easyant i just realized that somethings was wrong.


> Module inheritance sometimes fails to locate parent descriptor in deliver 
> process
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IVY-1248
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1248
>             Project: Ivy
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Ant
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: Jean-Louis Boudart
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I recently discovered a bug in Module Inheritance feature (i.e. extends).
> {code:xml} 
> <extends organisation="net.foo" module="bar" revision="latest.integration" 
> location="../myParent" extendTypes="configurations,dependencies"/>
> {code}
> The feature works fine if the parent descriptor is already published in your 
> repository, it will use the MRID to retrieve the parent module. 
> We also can use a "location" attribute (for dev mode) which defines where to 
> find the parent descriptor. This can make particular sense if you need to 
> share metadatas (dependencies, configurations, whatever)  across many 
> subprojects.
> If we get into technical details when "extend" element is found ivy will :
> * check on filesystem if parent module exists (based on location attribute). 
> If no location attribute is found ivy will look in the default one 
> "../ivy.xml".
> * if not found, it will check in the cache using MRID. However it just ignore 
> the version attribute. To be exact it ask for WorkingRevision.
> * if not found it will query repositories using the real MRID (here the 
> version attribute is taken in consideration)
> * if found it will try to flush the parent descriptor in the cache
> Everything works :)
> But when you invoke ivy:deliver (directly or through ivy:publish) ivy parse 
> the resolved module descriptor in the cache. And the complication comes here.
> Imagine you never publish the "parent module" in the repository. When you 
> will invoke ivy:deliver / ivy:publish ivy will :
> * parse your module descriptor (the one <extend>ing your parent) from the 
> cache
> * while parsing ivy will find the <extend> element and will try to locate the 
> parent descriptor
> * check the location attribute <-- fail because cache pattern is fully 
> configurable in ivy and almost never match with the default value "../ivy.xml"
> * check the cache with the given MRID (organisation="net.foo" module="bar" 
> but with working revision ) <-- almost never find it
> * check the repositories with the real mrid (organisation="net.foo" 
> module="bar" revision="latest.revision") <-- fail as we never published our 
> parent descriptor.
> * deliver process will fail !
> We never really encoutered the problem as this feature was developped in 
> easyant context and we were doing a lot of stuff around this feature. In 
> almost all cases parent descriptor was published by an other mechanism of 
> easyant  in a "build scoped repository" (kind of filesystem based repository 
> local to the project).
> While refactoring the code in easyant i just realized that somethings was 
> wrong.

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