any help on this issue?
On 21/12/2009 13:15, Alan Cassar wrote:
Hi,
we have decided that we need to write a maven plugin ourselves for
this to work. Basically the maven plugin will be doing the following:
1. List the project dependencies and figure out which dependencies
refer to test jars
2. Once we got a list of dependencies, we want to download their POM
and read the dependency list
3. We resolve the dependency list and add these jars to the final WAR
It sounds easy but I have a question to ask. From a dependency, how
can I get the MavenProject obejct for that particular dependency in
order to in turn identify its dependencies and be able to resolve
them? I am talking about the Maven API now.
I am able to get the current project using
/**
* @parameter expression="${project}"
* @required
* @readonly
*/
private MavenProject project;
and the direct dependencies using Set<Dependency> dependencies =
project.getDependencyArtifacts(); But from a Dependency object, is it
possible to get its MavenProject in order to call
getDependencyArtifacts() ?
Thanks for your help
Alan
Justin Edelson wrote:
I should have been clearer. The test-helper module I described below
can be
purely used as a mechanism to group test dependencies (i.e. need not
have
any code in it). So you can still keep your tests classes where they
are (in
project-core), but simply use test-helper to effectively combine
multiple
dependencies.
This isn't actually necessary - the simplest solution is to add the test
dependencies directly to your war project. Adding the test-helper
module can
help to keep these dependencies in sync between the two projects.
I'm not aware of any plugin-based solution for this and it seems
unlikely
that there is one.
Justin
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Alan Cassar
<[email protected]>wrote:
its not possible for me to split the project into 2 different
projects, one
holding the tests and the other holding the core. The idea basically
is we
have project, and we would like to deploy it on an application
server and
run the junit tests on the app server itself.
Isn't this doable with a plugin? or it is impossible because it goes
against the maven rules?
Thanks again
Alan
Justin Edelson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Alan Cassar <[email protected]
wrote:
Is it possible somehow to pull in the test transitive dependencies?
Not directly. What you can do is create another project (say,
test-helper)
and use that as a dependency for both projects, i.e.
test-helper
|- depends upon junit, easymock, other test dependencies, etc.
(compile
scope)
project-core
|- depends upon test-dependencies (test scope)
project-web
|- depends upon project-core:test-jar and test-dependencies (compile
scope)
The test-helper project could also contain any testing utility code
you
have.
The key point to keep in mind is that even though you can attach any
number
of additional artifacts to a Maven project, they will all share a
single
POM
file including the set of dependencies.
HTH,
Justin
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