[maven-dependency-plugin] Proposal: Additional parameter to order tree output

[Loïc Le Doyen <le...@gmail.com>]

Hello @dev team !

Being a frequent user of the *maven-dependency-plugin*, I often lack the
possibility to order the output of the *tree* goal to compare effective
trees when refactoring POM files.

So, following the same idea of comparing trees, it could be also
interesting to be able to output in a computer-friendly language such as
XML or JSON.

I will be happy to supply PR, if this is something that the Maven community
is interested in.

Best regards,

Loïc Ledoyen

Re: [maven-dependency-plugin] Proposal: Additional parameter to order tree output

[Maarten Mulders <ma...@mulders.it>]

Hi Loïc,

First of all, thanks for the suggestion! You are not alone in this idea.

In fact, there is already a PR [1] that provides this kind of 
functionality. It's been open for a while. The main reason is that it is 
currently hard to prove that it doesn't break anything. For that reason, 
I started working on some unit tests [2] but haven't yet received much 
feedback on it. Also I didn't find much time to continue that work.

Thanks,

Maarten

[1] https://github.com/apache/maven-dependency-plugin/pull/24
[2] https://github.com/apache/maven-dependency-plugin/pull/29

On February 16, 2020 at 19:22, Loïc Le Doyen wrote:

> Hello @dev team !
> 
> Being a frequent user of the *maven-dependency-plugin*, I often lack 
> the
> possibility to order the output of the *tree* goal to compare effective
> trees when refactoring POM files.
> 
> So, following the same idea of comparing trees, it could be also
> interesting to be able to output in a computer-friendly language such 
> as
> XML or JSON.
> 
> I will be happy to supply PR, if this is something that the Maven 
> community
> is interested in.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Loïc Ledoyen

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Re: [maven-dependency-plugin] Proposal: Additional parameter to order tree output

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <el...@ibiblio.org>]

Would this simply affect the output of what's shown to the user by
maven dependency:tree or would it also affect the order of resolution
for compile, exec:java, and everything else?

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:28 PM Loïc Le Doyen <le...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello @dev team !
>
> Being a frequent user of the *maven-dependency-plugin*, I often lack the
> possibility to order the output of the *tree* goal to compare effective
> trees when refactoring POM files.
>
> So, following the same idea of comparing trees, it could be also
> interesting to be able to output in a computer-friendly language such as
> XML or JSON.
>
> I will be happy to supply PR, if this is something that the Maven community
> is interested in.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Loïc Ledoyen



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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo@ibiblio.org

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