[jira] [Comment Edited] (MNG-6895) Add aliasing feature for settings.xml:///servers/server

["Jin Kwon (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jin Kwon edited comment on MNG-6895 at 4/21/20, 9:46 AM:
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Nope. The situation is opposite. For a same endpoint of a repository, different projects (from different divisions) uses different {{id}} in their repositories/distributionManagement section.

Unifying the {{id}} value in such a huge organization might not possible.


was (Author: jinahya):
Nope. The situation is opposite. For a same endpoint of a repository, different projects (from different divisions) uses different {{id}} in their repositories/distributionManagement section.

> Add aliasing feature for settings.xml:///servers/server
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-6895
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6895
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Settings
>            Reporter: Jin Kwon
>            Priority: Major
>
> In some cases there might be multiple server elements for the same endpoint with different {{id}}s.
> {code:xml}
> ...
>   <servers>
>     ...
>     <server>
>       <id>some</id>
>       <username>username</username>
>       <password>{password}</password>
>     </server>
>     <server>
>       <id>other</id> <!-- just a mismatched value in same organization -->
>       <username>username</username> <!-- same as some -->
>       <password>{password}</password> <!-- same as some -->
>     </server>
> ...
> {code}
> Can we have an attribute look like this?
> {code:xml}
> ...
>   <servers>
>     ...
>     <server>
>       <id>some</id>
>       <username>username</username>
>       <password>{password}</password>
>     </server>
>     <server aliasing="some">
>       <id>other</id> <!-- just a mismatched value in same organization -->
>     </server>
> ...
> {code}
> Or
> {code:xml}
> ...
>   <servers>
>     ...
>     <server aliases="other">
>       <id>some</id>
>       <username>username</username>
>       <password>{password}</password>
>     </server>
> ...
> {code}



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