[MANTTASKS-102] Provided scope doesn't filter out transitive dependencies

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Component/s: dependencies task
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kevin Stembridge
• Created: 02/Dec/07 18:15
• Updated: 25/Nov/14 14:29
• Resolved: 25/Nov/14 14:29

Description

Copied from a posting to the Maven users list:

I'm trying to use the dependencies ant task to copy artifacts to a given location but I'm having trouble excluding transitive dependencies.

My understanding from the documentation is that I should be able to use the following XML to copy an artifact, without its transitives. But, nothing at all gets copied.

<target name="test">
        
    <artifact:dependencies filesetId="copy.test.fileset" useScope="provided" verbose="true">
        <dependency groupId="org.springframework" artifactId="spring" version="2.0.7" scope="provided"/>
    </artifact:dependencies>
    
    <copy todir="bogus" verbose="true">
        <fileset refid="copy.test.fileset" />
        <mapper type="flatten" />
    </copy>
    
</target>

I've tried the following combinations of the useScope and scope attributes:

useScope	scope	Result
provided	provided	Nothing copied
provided	runtime	Nothing copied
provided	compile	Nothing copied
runtime	provided	Nothing copied
runtime	runtime	Dependency and transitives copied
runtime	compile	Dependency and transitives copied
compile	provided	Dependency and transitives copied
compile	runtime	Nothing copied
compile	compile	Dependency and transitives copied

Note that none of these configurations gives me a dependency without any transitives. I understand that I can specify exclusion elements to exclude all the transitives but it seems to me that specifying provided scope is supposed to achieve the same goal, and would be much nicer.

Issue Links

• relates to: MANTTASKS-147 Improvements to scope filtering