I am trying to use the Maven assembly plugin to build a jar-with-dependencies, except those that have provided scope.
I have copied the jar-with-dependencies into an assembly.xml file and configured its use in my pom. Here it is for reference:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<assembly>
<id>injectable-jar</id>
<formats>
<format>jar</format>
</formats>
<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
<dependencySets>
<dependencySet>
<unpack>true</unpack>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependencySet>
</dependencySets>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</directory>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
</assembly>
I have found out, that if I set the scope to provided
, then I can build a jar that contains exactly what I don't want, but I cannot figure out how to get inverse behavior of that.
This is a bit clunky, but you can use the maven-dependency-plugin to copy/unpack all the dependencies into your project, then use the assembly plugin to do the packaging.
The copy-dependencies
and unpack-dependencies
goals both have an optional excludeScope property you can set to omit the provided
dependencies. The configuration below copies all dependencies into target/lib, your assembly plugin descriptor can be modified to use a fileSet to include those jars.
Update: Just tested this to confirm it works. Added the configuration for binding the assembly plugin to the package phase, and the relevant modifications to the assembly descriptor.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<excludeScope>provided</excludeScope>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>jar-with-deps</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>src/main/assembly/my-assembly.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
</plugin>
The fileSet section of the my-assembly
descriptor would look like this:
<assembly>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.build.directory}/lib</directory>
<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
<includes>
<include>*.*</include>
</includes>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
...
</assembly>
In theory the tags "ignoreNonCompile" and "excludeScope" should help, but be warned that they do not necessarily work properly.
With maven3 and the maven-dependency-plugin 2.4, one solution is:
<configuration>
<excludeArtifactIds>junit,mockito-all</excludeArtifactIds>
<excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive>
</configuration>
With the latest Maven (I was testing on Maven 3.0) this appears to work as expected, with some caveats:
The requested scope (in the dependencySet) may include additional scopes based on the following definition: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Dependency_Scope
Thus, if you request compile scope you will get both compile and provided. However, if you request runtime scope you should get compile and runtime (but not provided).
This is an old post, but the maven-dependency-plugin now has an "excludeScope" option that you can set to "provided" or whatever scope you need.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/copy-dependencies-mojo.html#excludeScope
For example,
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
<overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
<overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots>
<overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
<excludeScope>provided</excludeScope>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>