[jira] Created: (IVY-781) The retrieve task should preserve directory structure reflected in organisation's dotted notation

["Carlton Brown (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

The retrieve task should preserve directory structure reflected in organisation's dotted notation
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                 Key: IVY-781
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-781
             Project: Ivy
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Ant
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0-beta-2
            Reporter: Carlton Brown
            Priority: Minor


For any publish-capable m2compatible resolver, <ivy:publish> will map dotted notation into a nested directory structure.   

Currently, <ivy:retrieve> does not behave the same way.   When you retrieve an artifact with organisation org.ivy.foo, it retrieves into a directory named org.ivy.foo.   

For consistency, it should map to a directory structure like org/ivy/foo the same way as <ivy:publish> does.   I think this should be the default behavior.   If someone decides they want it flattened, there could be an attribute flattenOrgNamespace or some such.

This could be either a bug or an improvement, but I decided it was inconsistent and non-intuitive for publish and retrieve to handle dotted notation differently, so it could be considered a bug.  WDYT?

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[jira] Updated: (IVY-781) The retrieve task should allow to preserve directory structure reflected in organisation's dotted notation

["Xavier Hanin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Xavier Hanin updated IVY-781:
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    Issue Type: Improvement  (was: Bug)
       Summary: The retrieve task should allow to preserve directory structure reflected in organisation's dotted notation  (was: The retrieve task should preserve directory structure reflected in organisation's dotted notation)

I change this to an improvement, and change the title to reflect that it should only be an option. I also think that it shouldn't be the default. In many cases retrieve is used in a single project, where splitting organizations in nested directories has not the same effect as is in a repository, where scalability can be an issue. So I personnally prefer to keep flat directories during retrieve. Another argument is that it would break backward compatibility, which we try to avoid most of the time.

> The retrieve task should allow to preserve directory structure reflected in organisation's dotted notation
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>
>                 Key: IVY-781
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-781
>             Project: Ivy
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Ant
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0-beta-2
>            Reporter: Carlton Brown
>            Priority: Minor
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> For any publish-capable m2compatible resolver, <ivy:publish> will map dotted notation into a nested directory structure.   
> Currently, <ivy:retrieve> does not behave the same way.   When you retrieve an artifact with organisation org.ivy.foo, it retrieves into a directory named org.ivy.foo.   
> For consistency, it should map to a directory structure like org/ivy/foo the same way as <ivy:publish> does.   I think this should be the default behavior.   If someone decides they want it flattened, there could be an attribute flattenOrgNamespace or some such.
> This could be either a bug or an improvement, but I decided it was inconsistent and non-intuitive for publish and retrieve to handle dotted notation differently, so it could be considered a bug.  WDYT?

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