[MECLIPSE-152] Write .classpath with ordered dependencies [incl. Patch]

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Environment: Windowz XP, eclipse 3.2
• Assignee: Arnaud Heritier
• Reporter: Holger Hoffstätte
• Created: 30/Aug/06 07:14
• Updated: 08/Feb/20 15:41
• Resolved: 29/Nov/07 21:15

Description

Related to my comment in MNG-1412 - I decided to take a quick stab at the eclipse plugin and voilá! Ordered dependencies in the written .classpath. This is only a prototype (my first attempt at maven development) and could serve as basis for other orderings like groupId, transitive nearness etc.

Initially I wanted to make IdeDependency comparable (similar to MECLIPSE-150 which added proper equals) but having multiple Comparators seemed better for extensibility.

It worked right away, does exactly what I want (ordering by artifactId) and has minimal impact. I am not familiar with the maven codebase so I hope this is the right place to do the actual ordering before writing; obviously it should observe a property like -DorderDependencies=artifactId or something similar. The patch is against svn r425750 (2006-08-30). Currently no testcase but if someone tells me how to add/read an orderDependencies property I might add one.

Comments welcome.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-1412 dependency sorting in classpath
• relates to: MECLIPSE-294 Sort items in the generated .classpath