[CASSANDRA-16391] Migrate dependency handling from maven-ant-tasks to resolver-ant-tasks

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: High
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Component/s: Build, Dependencies
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Normal

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/cf39d031279620eb5684ad384dff72f7325104cd

Test and Documentation Plan

CI, manual lib/ parity checks

• Assignee: Unassigned Assign to me
• Reporter: Michael Semb Wever

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 16/Jan/21 20:53
• Updated: 02/Jun/22 18:45
• Resolved: 02/Apr/21 08:28

Description

Cassandra resolves dependencies and generates maven pom files through the use of maven-ant-tasks. This is no longer a supported project.

The recommended upgrade is to resolver-ant-tasks. It follows similar APIs so shouldn't be too impactful a change.

The existing maven-ant-tasks has caused some headaches already with internal super poms referencing insecure http:// central maven repository URLs that are no longer supported.

We should also take the opportunity to

• define the "test" scope (classpath) for those dependencies only used for tests (currently we are packaging test dependencies into the release binary artefact),
• remove the jar files stored in the git repo under the "lib/" folder.

These two above points have to happen in tandem, as the jar files under lib/ are those that get bundled into the build/dist/lib/ and hence the binary artefact. That is, all jar files under lib/ are the project's "compile" scope, and all other dependencies defined in build.xml are either "provided" or "test" scope. These different scopes for dependencies are currently configured in different maven-ant-tasks poms. See https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/d43b9ce5092f8879a1a66afebab74d86e9e127fb#r45659668

Issue Links

• causes: CASSANDRA-16563 When behind a firewall trunk is not buildable, need to allow overriding URLs
• causes: CASSANDRA-16560 Update IDE and Eclipse classpaths for tests (after migration to resolver-ant-tasks)
• causes: CASSANDRA-16572 j8_dtest_jars_build is broken in CI
• causes: CASSANDRA-16559 Enable offline builds with resolver-ant-tasks
• fixes: CASSANDRA-16179 gen-doc depends on jar
• is cloned by: CASSANDRA-16557 (3.0,3.11) Migrate dependency handling from maven-ant-tasks to resolver-ant-tasks
• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-16359 mvn-install fails if no repo mirror is defined in settings.xml
• is duplicated by: CASSANDRA-16379 do not use http maven repo defined by MAT
• is related to: CASSANDRA-16597 Introduce Maven wrapper to build for Maven-less build environments