[MNG-5818] Disallow plugins from programmatically adding dependencies to projects

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jason van Zyl
• Created: 01/May/15 01:44
• Updated: 03/Apr/20 14:56

Description

MavenProject.setDependencyArtifacts(deps) is publicly available to plugins that can alter the classpath non-declaratively. For compatibility reasons in MNG-4363 we restored this capability for the cobertura-maven-plugin but it needs to be removed. It causes some nasty logic in the core, but it being non-delclarative and magical is the real problem.

We need to deprecate MavenProject.setDependencyArtifacts(deps), and replace the logic for constructing the artifacts in a better. Preferably passing in the artifacts in the constructor of MavenProject.