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[jira] [Commented] (MRESOLVER-240) Using breadth-first approach to resolve maven dependencies

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wei cai commented on MRESOLVER-240:
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[https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/pull/144] is for this JIRA.

> Using breadth-first approach to resolve maven dependencies
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MRESOLVER-240
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOLVER-240
>             Project: Maven Resolver
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Resolver
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.3
>            Reporter: wei cai
>            Priority: Major
>
> There was discussions about the DFS or BFS algorithm for maven resolver in MRESOLVER-228, Changing to BFS would make MRESOLVER-228 & MRESOLVER-7 much easier to implement. Here is the plan for multiple changes requested recently:
>  * DFS > BFS - preparation for parallel download
>  * Skip & Reconcile - avoid unnecessary version resolution (MRESOLVER-228)
>  * Download descriptors in parallel (MRESOLVER-7)
> This Jira would focus on DFS -> BFS.
> Basically maven would:
>  * Go through all nodes and their dependencies starting from the root node to form a dependency graph.
>  * Resolve the version conflicts by a nearest first approach (close to BFS) and determine the effective dependencies.
> Changing DFS to BFS is just a sequence change (depth first -> width first), all nodes and their dependencies are still traversed, thus it won't change the dependency resolve result.
> When changing to BFS, we cannot break below rules:
>  * Exclusions and dependency management can be inherited from parent node.
>  [PR|https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/pull/144] (co-authored by @ibabiankou) is fired. The basic idea of this PR is:
>  * Use queue instead of stack as required by BFS algorithm.
>  * Track the objects such as DependencySelector, DependencyManager in DependencyProcessingContext and put into the queue, so inheritance of Exclusions and dependency management won't break.



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