[MDEP-645] List classes in a given artifact

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.3
• Labels: intern
• Assignee: Elliotte Rusty Harold
• Reporter: John Lin
• Created: 03/Apr/19 02:53
• Updated: 09/Jan/23 20:32
• Resolved: 17/Jul/20 12:18

Description

When I want to list all the classes in a given artifact, I have to use jar command to show files in the corresponding .jar file.

For example, I want to list all the classes in the artifact

org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.6

I have to run

jar tf ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.6/commons-lang3-3.6.jar

This method has some disadvantages:

1. The jar file may not be downloaded, so it may not be in ~/.m2/repository.
2. It's kind of tedious to type such a long filename.
3. The output is shown in raw filenames, e.g., org/apache/commons/lang3/SystemUtils.class, but I generally want a package + class name org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils.

So I would expect a goal called show with an argument artifact, so I can type

mvn dependency:show -Dartifact=org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.6

to show

org.apache.commons.lang3.CharUtils
org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils
...

What do you guys think? Thanks.

Issue Links

• causes: MDEP-842 :list-classes does not skip if skip is set
• causes: MDEP-843 :list-classes does not use GAV parameters
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #57
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #60