IVY Dependency Exclude questions

["van Rensburg, Linda: Absa" <li...@absa.co.za>]

Good day,

I have a question w.r.t exclusions in the dependency tag of the ivy.xml:

Question 1
With below exclusion I would have thought that all the dependencies of commons-configuration would be excluded except for commons-configuration. But everything, including commons-configuration are excluded.

      <dependency org="commons-configuration" name="commons-configuration" rev="1.9">
            <exclude org="*" name="*"/>
      </dependency>

Question 2
Making the POM file of the below ivy.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd">

  <info organisation="za.co.absa" module="ESF" revision="2.5"/>

  <publications>
      <artifact type="pom" ext="pom"/>
      <artifact type="jar" ext="jar"/>
  </publications>

  <dependencies>
      <dependency org="org.apache.commons" name="commons-email" rev="1.3.1" transitive="false"/>
      <dependency org="com.fasterxml.jackson.core" name="jackson-annotations" rev="2.6.3" transitive="false"/>
      <dependency org="com.fasterxml.jackson.core" name="jackson-core" rev="2.6.3" transitive="false"/>
      <dependency org="com.fasterxml.jackson.core" name="jackson-databind" rev="2.6.3" transitive="false"/>
      <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="1.2.4" transitive="false"/>
  </dependencies>
</ivy-module>

Results in:
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>za.co.absa</groupId>
  <artifactId>ESF</artifactId>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>
  <version>2.5</version>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
      <artifactId>commons-email</artifactId>
      <version>1.3.1</version>
      <optional>false</optional>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>*</groupId>
          <artifactId>*</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
      <version>2.6.3</version>
      <optional>false</optional>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>*</groupId>
          <artifactId>*</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
      <version>2.6.3</version>
      <optional>false</optional>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>*</groupId>
          <artifactId>*</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.4</version>
      <optional>false</optional>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>*</groupId>
          <artifactId>*</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>

When you do a retrieve in IVYDE, then of the above, then nothing gets retrieved except for ESF 2.5. Surely the other dependencies should have been retrieved, except for their transitive dependencies?
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd">

  <info organisation="za.co.absa" module="ZZZZ_EAR"/>
  <dependencies>

      <dependency org="za.co.absa" name="ESF" rev="2.5"/>

      <exclude org="*" ext="*" type="source"/>
      <exclude org="*" ext="*" type="javadoc"/>

  </dependencies>

</ivy-module>




Kind Regards
Linda van Rensburg
Developer ABSA Bank, South Africa
lindavr@absa.co.za<ma...@absa.co.za>
lindavr22@mweb.co.za<ma...@mweb.co.za>


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