Maven Integration for Eclipse

show type-origin path to dependency in Open-Type dialog

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Help Wanted, UI
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Description

In complex projects where there are many transitive dependencies it would be great to know the "jar-path-origin" of a type.

usually to find out from which jar a type is coming from i use Open Type (shortcut <Ctrl>+<Shift>+T). at bottom of dialog now i can see either the source folder or deployed jar origin.
in complex situations with many transitive dependencies m2eclipse could help out here to show the pom-dependency path to the origin jar.

this comes very handy, when to analyze and to chuck away redundant dependencies.

i think it is enough to make this visible by text (something like foo:bar:1.2 -> foo:other:2.3) at the bottom of Open-Type dialog.

a visualized graph would be overkill here in my view.

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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment -

Interesting idea, but unfortunately it is not possible to alter status of the Open Type dialog, without replacing the entire dialog, which would be out of scope for the project.

Currently you can get this information the following way:

  • open a type in the editor (it will select type in the "Package Explorer" view)
  • navigate to the jar contained it in the "Package Explorer" view by going up to the hierarchy
  • on selected jar, use Maven / Show Dependency Hierarchy action (will be available in the next dev build)
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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment - Interesting idea, but unfortunately it is not possible to alter status of the Open Type dialog, without replacing the entire dialog, which would be out of scope for the project. Currently you can get this information the following way: open a type in the editor (it will select type in the "Package Explorer" view) navigate to the jar contained it in the "Package Explorer" view by going up to the hierarchy on selected jar, use Maven / Show Dependency Hierarchy action (will be available in the next dev build)

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    Reporter:
    manuel aldana
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