[MNG-6224] Dependency version from test scope leaks into compile scope

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.9
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrei Tomashpolskiy
• Created: 13/Mar/17 12:02
• Updated: 27/Jul/23 06:57

Description

Despite test scope being non-transitive [1] it's still used to resolve versions of compile dependencies. This might be causing issues in IDEs that rely on the Dependency plugin to assemble the application's classpath.

E.g. for the following project configuration javax.servlet-api version is resolved to 3.0.1 (using nearest-first strategy to resolve conflicts):

project1
|-- project2:compile
|..|-- jetty-server:compile
|....|-- javax.servlet-api:3.1.0:compile
|-- jersey-test-framework-core:test
|..|-- javax.servlet-api:3.0.1:compile

My understanding is that it should rather be resolved to 3.1.0, because version 3.0.1 stems from the test scope and should be ignored (AFAIK Maven Shade plugin works in that way).

Please see a runnable code example in https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/maven-transitive-test-dependencies

Thank you!

[1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-7852 Use all the versions for dependency resolution rather than "nearest first" or "declared first"
• relates to: MNG-1378 Make dependencies of test-jars transitive
• relates to: MNG-6058 Test dependencies should override application dependencies only during testing
• relates to: MNG-4675 Compile scoped dependencies replaced by test