[MDEP-443] dependency tree should be the same when using verbose or not

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: tree
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Cintia DR
• Created: 18/Apr/14 04:20
• Updated: 21/Apr/14 11:27
• Resolved: 21/Apr/14 11:27

Description

When running dependency tree (version 2.8) using maven 3, the generated tree is consistent with what maven is using.

If you enable -Dverbose, I have a maven 2 dependency tree:

if ( verbose )
            {
                // verbose mode force Maven 2 dependency tree component use
                dependencyTreeString =
                    serializeVerboseDependencyTree( dependencyTreeBuilder.buildDependencyTree( project,
                                                                                               localRepository,
                                                                                               artifactFilter ) );
            }
            else
            {
                // non-verbose mode use dependency graph component, which gives consistent results with Maven version
                // running
                rootNode = dependencyGraphBuilder.buildDependencyGraph( project, artifactFilter );

                dependencyTreeString = serializeDependencyTree( rootNode );
            }

It's very misleading. Even the documentation doesn't mention it.

Probably there's a good reason to not use Aether for the verbose mode, but I guess at least it should print a warning at the end of the process and explicitly say it in the documentation.

Issue Links

• is related to: MDEP-374 dependency:tree -Dverbose isn't verbose anymore
• is related to: MDEP-339 tree mojo doesn't work consistently with maven3