Maven 2.x Dependency Plugin

Add a skip paramater to dependency:unpack

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 2.1
  • Fix Version/s: 2.2
  • Component/s: unpack
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    Windows XP
  • Number of attachments :
    1

Description

We would like to have a skip paramater for dependency:unpack. This would cause the unpack to be skipped if true. We are currently working around the lack of this with profiles.

The jetspeed plugin has a skip option that we have found some uses for, but jetspeed is not as robust as the dependency plugin (specifically with multi-module builds). We would prefer to use the core modules anyway.

Here is a link to the jetspeed configuration page:

http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/maven/jetspeed-maven-plugins.html#Configuration_and_usage_of_the_jetspeed-unpack:unpack_Maven_Plugin

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Khai Do added a comment -

Yes. skip flag would be nice to have for unpack and copy.
Here is a use case:
We have a few maven projects that are only dedicated to testing or setting up test environments. These projects use the dependency plugin to get large resources from various repositories for testing. The copy and unpack are a bit time consuming so it would be nice to skip if we build without tests (i.e. -Dmaven.test.skip=true).

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Khai Do added a comment - Yes. skip flag would be nice to have for unpack and copy. Here is a use case: We have a few maven projects that are only dedicated to testing or setting up test environments. These projects use the dependency plugin to get large resources from various repositories for testing. The copy and unpack are a bit time consuming so it would be nice to skip if we build without tests (i.e. -Dmaven.test.skip=true).
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Khai Do added a comment -

Attached is a patch for the skip flag. It will work for both copy and unpack goals. Please consider including this in the next release. Thanks.

Here the pom.xml:
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skip>[ true or false ]</skip>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>[ groupId ]</groupId>
<artifactId>[ artifactId ]</artifactId>
<version>[ version ]</version>
<type>[ packaging ]</type>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
</project>

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Khai Do added a comment - Attached is a patch for the skip flag. It will work for both copy and unpack goals. Please consider including this in the next release. Thanks. Here the pom.xml: <project> [...] <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <skip>[ true or false ]</skip> <artifactItems> <artifactItem> <groupId>[ groupId ]</groupId> <artifactId>[ artifactId ]</artifactId> <version>[ version ]</version> <type>[ packaging ]</type> </artifactItem> </artifactItems> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> [...] </project>

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  • Assignee:
    Brian Fox
    Reporter:
    Jim McCaskey
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