[ARIES-1772] Add an option to blueprint-maven-plugin to exclude dependencies.

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: blueprint-maven-plugin-1.9.0
• Component/s: Blueprint
• Assignee: Dominik Przybysz
• Reporter: Daniel Estermann
• Created: 05/Feb/18 15:37
• Updated: 13/Apr/18 13:34
• Resolved: 11/Feb/18 22:00

Description

Currently the list of scanned classes by blueprint-maven-plugin can be restricted using scanPath parameter, so the list can also contain the classes of the project dependencies. With my projects I experience two kind of issues with it:

• If the the scan path is chosen too widely it may lead to a build failure. For example: Assume project A has a dependency to project B an both have the same base package, which is chosen as the scan path. Project B has a blueprint bean, which implements an interface from some provided dependency of it. The build of project A will fail then, because it will try to scan a blueprint bean of project B but it will miss its provided dependency. An example error message:

 

Failed to execute goal org.apache.aries.blueprint:blueprint-maven-plugin:1.9.0:blueprint-generate (default) on project email-template-editor-core: Execution default of goal org.apache.aries.blueprint:blueprint-maven-plugin:1.9.0:blueprint-generate failed: A required class was missing while executing org.apache.aries.blueprint:blueprint-maven-plugin:1.9.0:blueprint-generate: com/mycorporation/scheduler/api/ScheduledService

 

• If a bean of project B appears in the autowire.xml of project A, but the package of that bean is not imported in the manifest of project A, a ClassNotFoundException will be thrown during runtime:

 

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mycorporation.project-a.commons.notification.IncomingNotificationService from [Module "deployment.com.mycorporation.project-b.commons.core:0.0.1.SNAPSHOT" from Service Module Loader]

 

I suggest to add an option, to exclude dependencies from the list of scanned classes, like maven-bundle-plugin's excludeDependencies for example, and give this option per default such value as to exclude all dependencies.

 

Issue Links

• is related to: ARIES-1792 blueprint-maven-plugin slows down compilation