getting information from a dependencies pom.xml

[Ruel Loehr <ru...@jboss.com>]

Each thirdparty dependency has a pom file which has the potential to
hold a wealth of information (e.g. license-info).

 

I'm working on a custom plugin which would traverse the dependency graph
and validate that each dependency's pom.xml has a license defined.
However, I've hit a wall when it comes to accessing the info in the pom
of the dependency.

 

//for each dependency in the dependency management section

      //get the dependency

      //resolve it

      //get the artifact

 

     The question is how can I access the information that is contained
in the pom of a dependency?   I have not found any methods on
dependency, or artifact, that allow me to access it's project model.

 

 

 

Ruel Loehr

JBoss QA

 

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Re: getting information from a dependencies pom.xml

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

Hi Ruel,

An example you might look at is the DependenciesReport in
maven-project-info-reports-plugin.

You shouldn't need to manually resolve the artifact as long as you are
requiring that the project already resolve its dependencies - the
steps you need for each dependency is:
- create an artifact of type pom to match the dependency
- use the project builder to create a mavenproject to inspect

HTH,
Brett

On 2/16/06, Ruel Loehr <ru...@jboss.com> wrote:
> Each thirdparty dependency has a pom file which has the potential to
> hold a wealth of information (e.g. license-info).
>
>
>
> I'm working on a custom plugin which would traverse the dependency graph
> and validate that each dependency's pom.xml has a license defined.
> However, I've hit a wall when it comes to accessing the info in the pom
> of the dependency.
>
>
>
> //for each dependency in the dependency management section
>
>       //get the dependency
>
>       //resolve it
>
>       //get the artifact
>
>
>
>      The question is how can I access the information that is contained
> in the pom of a dependency?   I have not found any methods on
> dependency, or artifact, that allow me to access it's project model.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ruel Loehr
>
> JBoss QA
>
>
>
> -----------------------------
>
> 512-342-7840 ext 2011
>
> Yahoo: ruelloehr
>
> Skype: ruelloehr
>
> AOL: dokoruel
>
>
>
>
>

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