Multi-project & configurations: Sub-project dependency naming

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I have a multi-project with five sub-projects. Two of those sub-projects depend on other subprojects, which I have specified using

project('A') {
   dependencies {
      compile project(':B')
   }
}

The artifact names are modified according to the build configuration like this

uploadReleaseCandidate {
        repositories {
            mavenDeployer {
                ...
                if (!version.contains("-RC")) {
                    pom.version = version + "-RC"
                }
                ...

and similar for -SNAPSHOT and -RELEASE. However, that way all project jars are referencing a “naked” jar name (like org.xyz:A:0.1 rather than org.xyz:A:0.1-RC). So here’s the question:

How do I write my build script so in the generated POM that sub-projects

  • for configuration “snapshot” reference “-SNAPSHOT.jar” files - for configuration “releaseCandidate” reference “-RC.jar” files - for configuration “release” reference “RELEASE” files ?

Thanks for any hints!

2

What exactly do you mean by “project jar”?

3

Every project creates a single jar file as an artifact (the project structure is a little similar to OSGi, with interfaces etc. going into one jar file and an implementation of that into another).

4

And how do these Jars reference other Jar names (“all project jars are referencing a “naked” jar name”)? Are you talking about the ‘dependency’ declarations of the generated POMs?

5

Like in the first code sample above, with project A adding

compile project(’:B’)

as a dependency.

6

Sorry, you’ll have to explain in more detail what exactly the problem is. From what I can tell, the build script above just changes the version in the published POM. I can’t tell if/why you want to have it changed somewhere else.

7

Nono, I am sorry for writing confusing stuff… let me try again…

Let’s say I have a multi-project with two subprojects

MP (no artifact) ±- A (creates org.xyz:A.jar) ±- B depends on A (creates org.xyz:B.jar)

I have three configurations

configurations {
   snapshot
   releaseCandidate
   release
}

The jars are uploaded to an artifactory, and to distinguish the stages the artifact names are modified in the mavenDeployer as detailed above, so e.g.

for project A the candidate artifact is renamed to org.xyz:A:0.1-RC for project B the candidate artifact is renamed to org.xyz:B:0.1-RC

The project dependency is specified as given in the first code sample. Now, when I execute my build e.g. for the uploadReleaseCandidate task the artifact gets uploaded as

<groupId>org.xyz</groupId>
  <artifactId>A</artifactId>
  <version>0.1-RC</version>

and similar for B. However, in B’s POM there is the following dependency

<dependency>
      <groupId>org.xyz</groupId>
      <artifactId>A</artifactId>
      <version>0.1</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

(no -RC), and that’s not what I want. I would like to have all RC artifacts reference the RC version of their dependencies from this multi-project (and likewise for snapshots and releases).

Hope this is a little clearer

8

What’s the artifact for these configurations? Is it always the same Jar as produced by the ‘jar’ task?

9

Technically (content-wise) it’s the same jar for all configurations, they only differ due to the renaming step.

10

A simple solution would be to just use a single upload task (‘uploadArchives’) and change ‘project.version’ depending on the value of a system or project property. If you want to keep the separate upload tasks, you’d probably have to reconfigure ‘pom.dependencies’ similar to how you do it for ‘pom.version’.