[MNG-5988] Dependency mediation should prioritize transitive dependencies based on scope.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jostein Gogstad
• Created: 03/Mar/16 12:51
• Updated: 22/Oct/24 19:53

Description

The documentation states that dependency mediation only supports "nearest definition", regardless of the scope of the parent dependency.

If both compile- and test scoped dependencies shares the same transitive dependency, the test-scoped one will win if it has shallower depth. That in turn will lead to runtime exceptions since the transitive dependency is no longer on the classpath.

Take the following pom from a typical Spring Boot application. Since the camel-test-spring dependency also depends on spring, it wins and Spring is no longer available to the application at runtime.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>bugreport</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
            <version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
            <artifactId>camel-test-spring</artifactId>
            <version>2.16.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</project>

Now look for spring-beans or spring-context in the following dependency graphs:

mvn dependency:tree (with camel-test-spring)

[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ bugreport ---
[INFO] com.example:bugreport:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  |  \- ch.qos.logback:logback-core:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.13:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- org.slf4j:jul-to-slf4j:jar:1.7.13:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  \- org.slf4j:log4j-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.13:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.yaml:snakeyaml:jar:1.16:runtime
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-el:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-logging-juli:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-websocket:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:jar:5.2.2.Final:compile
[INFO] |  |     +- javax.validation:validation-api:jar:1.1.0.Final:compile
[INFO] |  |     +- org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging:jar:3.2.1.Final:compile
[INFO] |  |     \- com.fasterxml:classmate:jar:1.1.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:jar:2.6.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:jar:2.6.5:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] \- org.apache.camel:camel-test-spring:jar:2.16.2:test
[INFO]    +- org.apache.camel:camel-test:jar:2.16.2:test
[INFO]    |  +- org.apache.camel:camel-core:jar:2.16.2:test
[INFO]    |  |  \- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.6.6:compile
[INFO]    |  \- junit:junit:jar:4.11:test
[INFO]    |     \- org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.3:test
[INFO]    +- org.apache.camel:camel-spring:jar:2.16.2:test
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-test:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:test
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-tx:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:test
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:4.1.9.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO]    +- com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-core:jar:2.2.11:test
[INFO]    \- com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl:jar:2.2.11:test

mvn dependency:tree (without camel-test-spring)

[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ bugreport ---
[INFO] com.example:bugreport:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] \- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  +- ch.qos.logback:logback-core:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO]    |  |  |  \- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.7.7:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.13:compile
[INFO]    |  |  +- org.slf4j:jul-to-slf4j:jar:1.7.13:compile
[INFO]    |  |  \- org.slf4j:log4j-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.13:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  \- org.yaml:snakeyaml:jar:1.16:runtime
[INFO]    +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-el:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-logging-juli:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO]    |  \- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-websocket:jar:8.0.30:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation:jar:1.3.2.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  \- org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:jar:5.2.2.Final:compile
[INFO]    |     +- javax.validation:validation-api:jar:1.1.0.Final:compile
[INFO]    |     +- org.jboss.logging:jboss-logging:jar:3.2.1.Final:compile
[INFO]    |     \- com.fasterxml:classmate:jar:1.1.0:compile
[INFO]    +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:jar:2.6.5:compile
[INFO]    |  +- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:jar:2.6.0:compile
[INFO]    |  \- com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:jar:2.6.5:compile
[INFO]    +- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  |  \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO]    |  +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    |  \- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]    \- org.springframework:spring-webmvc:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile
[INFO]       \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:4.2.4.RELEASE:compile

Issue Links

• is blocked by: MNG-6056 Implement Feature Toggle Module to handle Feature Toggles
• is superceded by: MNG-6058 Test dependencies should override application dependencies only during testing
• relates to: MNG-7852 Use all the versions for dependency resolution rather than "nearest first" or "declared first"
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #442