I am so happy someone brought this up. I actually hit this issue several times but never got around to mentioning it. Please submit a JIRA issue!
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Barrie Treloar <baerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 February 2014 07:41, laredotornado-3 <laredotorn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using Maven 3.1.1 on Mac 10.9.1. When I ran "mvn > dependency:analyze" on > > my project, I got results that included: > > > > [WARNING] Unused declared dependencies found: > > ... > > [WARNING] junit:junit:jar:4.11:test > > > > So I commented out the above junit dependency in my pom (declared like > so): > [del] > > java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL > > at > org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.<init>(ParentRunner.java:48) > > at > > > org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.<init>(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:58) > > at > > > org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.<init>(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:104) > > > > This isn't the only dependency that the analyze goal lists that wreaks > havoc > > when I comment it out. Is there another way to detect what dependencies > are > > truly not needed by my project? > > Unfortunately this stuff is not documented well enough in the plugin. > You're welcome to submit a patch! > > Have a look at > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/faq.html#unused > > I think Maven is missing a scope, it needs to break up test into two > phases; testCompile and testRuntime instead of having one scope which > means both. > This means that the analyze code can't tell what stuff is needed for > tests at compile time and what is needed at runtime. > > If my memory serves me right, that would mean for your example that > Spring is a compile time dependency but junit would be a runtime > dependency. > Hence the incorrect "Unused declared dependencies found" error. > > I would manually ignore anything found in the test scope from the error > list. > I never found the time to go hacking the plugin to work better - i.e. > if it is test scope it really can't tell the difference between unused > dependencies and shouldn't report them. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Cheers, Paul
