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Guillaume Nodet reassigned MNG-8015:
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    Assignee: Guillaume Nodet

> Control the type of path where each dependency can be placed
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>                 Key: MNG-8015
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8015
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 4.0.0-alpha-12
>            Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
>            Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 4.0.0-alpha-13
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> Make possible to declare where each dependency can be placed: on the 
> module-path, class-path, agent path, doclet path, taglet path, annotation 
> processing path, _etc._ The proposed improvement consists in adding a new 
> {{PATH_TYPES}} property that can be associated to dependencies. The property 
> value is an array of {{PathType}}, a new enumeration-like class with values 
> such as {{CLASSES}}, {{MODULES}}, {{DOCLET}}, _etc._ Contrarily to real Java 
> enumerations, this enumeration-like class is extensible: plugins can add 
> their own enumeration values. This is required at least for the 
> {{--patch-module}} option, where a new {{PathType}} enumeration value need to 
> be created for each module to patch.
> Users can control indirectly the {{PathType}} of a dependency by specifying 
> the dependency type. Note that there is no direct mapping between the 
> dependency type and where the dependency will be placed, but only an indirect 
> mapping caused by the fact that using a dependency type implies implicit 
> values of some properties such as classifier, and (with this proposal) path 
> types:
>  * {{<type>jar</type>}} implies {{PathType.CLASSES}} and {{PathType.MODULES}}.
>  * {{<type>modular-jar</type>}} implies {{PathType.MODULES}} only.
>  * {{<type>classpath-jar</type>}} implies {{PathType.CLASSES}} only.
>  * _etc._
> When a plugin requests the paths of dependencies, the plugin specifies the 
> types of path it is interested in. For example, a Java compiler plugin can 
> specify that it is interested in {{PathType.CLASSES}} and 
> {{PathType.MODULES}}, but not {{PathType.DOCLET}}. If a dependency declared 
> that it can be placed on the class-path or the doclet-path, only the 
> class-path is left after intersection with plugin's request. This is 
> important for the next step.
> If, after all filtering such as above paragraph are applied, a dependency has 
> only one {{PathType}} left, then there is no ambiguity and we are done. 
> Combined with above-cited dependency types like {{modular-jar}} or 
> {{classpath-jar}}, this rule allows users to control where the dependency 
> will be placed. But if there are two or more {{PathType}} left after 
> filtering, then a choice needs to be done. For example if there are both 
> {{PathType.CLASSES}} and {{PathType.MODULES}} (which may happen when 
> {{<type>jar</type>}} is used), then an heuristic rule similar to Maven 3 can 
> be applied: check if a {{module-info.class}} file or an {{Automatic-Name}} 
> manifest attribute is present, and base the decision on that.
> This proposal aims to fix MNG-7855.



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