[jira] Created: (IVY-623) Ability to automatically recognize new resolvers, latest strategies, etc...

["Matt Inger (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Ability to automatically recognize new resolvers, latest strategies, etc...
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                 Key: IVY-623
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-623
             Project: Ivy
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Core
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha-2
            Reporter: Matt Inger



What i'd like to see though is for the ivy engine to use more pluggable
configuration elements, rather than forcing a <typedef>.

For example, one could create a jar file with the resolver classes
and a jar entry:

META-INF/ivy-typedefs.properties
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svn=org.myorg.ivy.resolver.SvnResolver

and have ivy load this resource at startup time, and make all the typedefs
available.  Then, including additional resolvers and latest/conflict
resolution strategies would be simply a matter of dropping in the .jar file
containing the class (and of course, any supporting jar files).

An alternative to the .properties would be an .xml file, though the simplicity
of a properties file might be enough, as i'm not sure offhand whether or not
typedef's can have subelements for things like parameters.


This would also need to be supported in IvyDE.

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