[IVY-1561] Use Ivy properties to override Maven POM settings

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0-rc1
• Component/s: Maven Compatibility
• External issue URL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/v1.5.3.RELEASE/spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-thymeleaf3/pom.xml
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Greg Hall
• Created: 09/Jun/17 01:36
• Updated: 13/Jun/17 08:39
• Resolved: 13/Jun/17 08:39

Description

I want to use Spring boot and Thymeleaf 3 with Ant+Ivy. Spring boot
1.5.3 (current release) by default loads older thymeleaf 2. Apparently, the
solution in a Maven POM is to specify the following properties:

<properties>
<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
<thymeleaf.version>3.0.2.RELEASE</thymeleaf.version>
<thymeleaf-layout-dialect.version>2.1.1</thymeleaf-layout-dialect.version>
</properties>

See the external issue URL for reference where I found the Maven POM solution.

I tried setting these as Ant properties before getting Ivy running, it makes no difference. I can use overrides in my dependencies to bring in version 3, but then it doesn't work, the code in spring boot seems to be expecting version 2.

I'm not sure how those Maven properties actually get used when pulling
in dependencies, but it seems Ivy currently lacks this feature.

Thanks

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #44