[MDEP-871] 3.6.0 reporting Used undeclared dependency that is only used indirectly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 3.6.0
• Component/s: analyze
• Assignee: Elliotte Rusty Harold
• Reporter: Joe Barnett
• Created: 01/Jun/23 23:47
• Updated: 30/Aug/24 15:17
• Resolved: 22/Oct/23 13:49

Description

reproducer project: https://github.com/josephlbarnett/mdep-3.6.0-analyze-reproducer

if you change the maven-dependency-plugin version to 3.5.0 in the above project, the maven build will pass.

 

It appears that referencing an interface that extends another interface (and calling a method in that interface) is pulling that extended interface in as a used dependency?  In this case the `software.amazon.awssdk.services.kms.KmsClientBuilder` interface extends an interface from the aws-core jar (`software.amazon.awssdk.awscore.client.builder.AwsClientBuilder`), and the example code calls the `.region()` method.   In 3.5.0 the aws-core dependency was not treated as used, but in 3.6.0 it is.  Unclear if this is only interface extension or classes implementing interfaces would have a similar problem?

 

Is this intended behavior?

Issue Links

• is related to: MDEP-891 Used undeclared dependencies found for class which is used by an indirect class