[SUREFIRE-2179] additionalClasspathElements should support Maven coordinates

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0, 3.2.1
• Component/s: classloading
• Assignee: Konrad Windszus
• Reporter: Konrad Windszus
• Created: 15/Jun/23 17:01
• Updated: 16/Oct/23 20:01
• Resolved: 30/Jun/23 06:27

Description

Currently the parameter additionalClasspathElements (https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#additionalclasspathelements) only supports file paths. That usually requires to add an additional step to first download the necessary artifact to a temporary folder with another Mojo. In addition additionalClasspathElements only support full paths to JARs but no wildcards which makes configuration very verbose.

For these reasons there should be an additional parameter supporting Maven coordinates which are then resolved automatically (even transitively) and added to the test execution classpath.

Issue Links

• blocks: JCRVLT-692 Run ITs with minimum and maximum Oak version
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #667