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[Ivy] A workspace resolver for Ant
Hi,
We’ve been wondering if the workspace resolver which exists for IvyDE could be transposed to the Ant world. I think I have made a working one. And I just pushed it.
The main issue in the design was about how Ant would be able to describe to Ivy the projects to take into account, and which would then be their artifacts. As a principle, I didn’t want to declare the workspace resolver in the ivysettings. Because the settings, for me, should be quite independent of the environment is it used. For instance I want it to work both within an Ant build file and in Eclipse with IvyDE. And IvyDE’s workspace resolver doesn’t need a modification of the end user's ivysettings in order to properly work.
To describe the modules, I just used a fileset of the ivy.xml files of the projects. Then everything would be relative to them, just like the buildlist ant task is working.
Then about declaring the artifacts, I have made them explicit. This might not be the most flexible. I’m not sure how to do better though.
Then the integration with Ant would be done via the configure task. Here an exemple.
<ivy:configure file="ivysettings.xml">
<workspaceResolver name="myresolver">
<fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="*/ivy.xml" />
<artifact type="dir" ext="" path="target/classes" />
</workspaceResolver>
</ivy:configure>
I have only did some small unit tests for now. This need some proper integration test to be fully validated.
Any comment is welcomed.
Nicolas
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Re: [Ivy] A workspace resolver for Ant
Posted by Nicolas Lalevée <ni...@hibnet.org>.
> Le 26 janv. 2015 à 00:38, Antoine Levy Lambert <an...@gmx.de> a écrit :
>
> Hello Nicolas,
>
> I am trying to understand in which use case I would need this resolver. It seems to be in the case that you want to build using Ant a stack of modules in a directory tree, and use the target/classes folder of each module as a dependency.
>
> Does this workspace resolver also has something for test classes which usually are output to a different root folder (for instance target/test-classes).
Good use case yes. This is not supported by the current code, since we need to define a configuration. But I guess we could write something like this:
<ivy:configure file="ivysettings.xml">
<workspaceResolver name="myresolver">
<fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="*/ivy.xml" />
<artifact conf="runtime" type="dir" ext="" path="target/classes" />
<artifact conf="test" type="dir" ext="" path="target/test-classes" />
</workspaceResolver>
</ivy:configure>
Also not supported right now, real artifact files could be defined like that:
<artifact name="[module]" type="jar" ext="jar" path="target/dist/[module].jar" />
<artifact name="[module]" type="source" ext="jar" path="target/dist/[module]-sources.jar" />
And things we should look at also are the ant triggers from Ivy. The ideal use case will be that a workspace resolver will figure out which project is needed to build the current one, and thus trigger a build of the selected dependent project.
Nicolas
>
> Best regards Nicolas, great to see all the work you do for ivy.
>
> Antoine
>
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Nicolas Lalevée <ni...@hibnet.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We’ve been wondering if the workspace resolver which exists for IvyDE could be transposed to the Ant world. I think I have made a working one. And I just pushed it.
>>
>> The main issue in the design was about how Ant would be able to describe to Ivy the projects to take into account, and which would then be their artifacts. As a principle, I didn’t want to declare the workspace resolver in the ivysettings. Because the settings, for me, should be quite independent of the environment is it used. For instance I want it to work both within an Ant build file and in Eclipse with IvyDE. And IvyDE’s workspace resolver doesn’t need a modification of the end user's ivysettings in order to properly work.
>>
>> To describe the modules, I just used a fileset of the ivy.xml files of the projects. Then everything would be relative to them, just like the buildlist ant task is working.
>>
>> Then about declaring the artifacts, I have made them explicit. This might not be the most flexible. I’m not sure how to do better though.
>>
>> Then the integration with Ant would be done via the configure task. Here an exemple.
>>
>> <ivy:configure file="ivysettings.xml">
>> <workspaceResolver name="myresolver">
>> <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="*/ivy.xml" />
>> <artifact type="dir" ext="" path="target/classes" />
>> </workspaceResolver>
>> </ivy:configure>
>>
>>
>> I have only did some small unit tests for now. This need some proper integration test to be fully validated.
>>
>> Any comment is welcomed.
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
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Re: [Ivy] A workspace resolver for Ant
Posted by Antoine Levy Lambert <an...@gmx.de>.
Hello Nicolas,
I am trying to understand in which use case I would need this resolver. It seems to be in the case that you want to build using Ant a stack of modules in a directory tree, and use the target/classes folder of each module as a dependency.
Does this workspace resolver also has something for test classes which usually are output to a different root folder (for instance target/test-classes).
Best regards Nicolas, great to see all the work you do for ivy.
Antoine
On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:51 PM, Nicolas Lalevée <ni...@hibnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We’ve been wondering if the workspace resolver which exists for IvyDE could be transposed to the Ant world. I think I have made a working one. And I just pushed it.
>
> The main issue in the design was about how Ant would be able to describe to Ivy the projects to take into account, and which would then be their artifacts. As a principle, I didn’t want to declare the workspace resolver in the ivysettings. Because the settings, for me, should be quite independent of the environment is it used. For instance I want it to work both within an Ant build file and in Eclipse with IvyDE. And IvyDE’s workspace resolver doesn’t need a modification of the end user's ivysettings in order to properly work.
>
> To describe the modules, I just used a fileset of the ivy.xml files of the projects. Then everything would be relative to them, just like the buildlist ant task is working.
>
> Then about declaring the artifacts, I have made them explicit. This might not be the most flexible. I’m not sure how to do better though.
>
> Then the integration with Ant would be done via the configure task. Here an exemple.
>
> <ivy:configure file="ivysettings.xml">
> <workspaceResolver name="myresolver">
> <fileset dir="${basedir}" includes="*/ivy.xml" />
> <artifact type="dir" ext="" path="target/classes" />
> </workspaceResolver>
> </ivy:configure>
>
>
> I have only did some small unit tests for now. This need some proper integration test to be fully validated.
>
> Any comment is welcomed.
>
> Nicolas
>
>
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