Question: on ignoring versions about versions HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi,

I about 130 small projects.

A few years back I face the same problem.

What I did to write a program that collect all the dependencies and create aggregated POM and then run the org.apache.maven.shared.invoker.Invoker to do the job.

I use maven.version.rules = file:///K:/JavaAPPs/MyMaven/maven.version.rules.xml

<ignoreVersions>
	<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*(-alpha|.alpha|beta|-ea|-m1|-m2|-m3|-m4|cr|rc).*</ignoreVersion>
</ignoreVersions>

<rules>
	
	<rule groupId="org.apache.maven.archetypes" artifactId="maven-archetype-quickstart" comparisonMethod="maven">
		<ignoreVersions>
			<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*</ignoreVersion>
		</ignoreVersions>
	</rule>

	<rule groupId="com.google.guava" comparisonMethod="maven">
		<ignoreVersions>
			<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*(android).*</ignoreVersion>
		</ignoreVersions>
	</rule>

	<rule groupId="org.openjfx" comparisonMethod="maven">
		<ignoreVersions>
			<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*(20.0.1).*</ignoreVersion>
		</ignoreVersions>
	</rule>
					
</rules>

Another program use a list of dependencies to scan the projects and for each found run "versions:use-next-releases"

Regards.

p.s. I will be happy to share the code. please let me know.

from versions.

That's interesting. But the question I still have, why does the default approach not work (the ignore rules and exclude parameters). Is it because submodules are used? Or is it something different?

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I do not use submodules so I can't say.
Have you tried my rules just to omit problems with regular expressions ?

from versions.

I copied your rules.
I had to change one so "-ea" will work.

<!-- <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[-_\.](alpha|Alpha|ALPHA|b|beta|Beta|BETA|rc|RC|M|EA)[-_\.]?[0-9]*</ignoreVersion> -->
	<ignoreVersion type="regex">(?i).*(alpha|Alpha|ALPHA|b|beta|Beta|BETA|rc|RC|M|EA).*</ignoreVersion>

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I found out that (probably due to a misconfiguration) the rules.xml wasn't applied. So even when I made the XML file invalid it didn't give an error.

The configuration that worked for me was:

project pom.xml

	<properties>
		<maven.versions.rules>file:///${project.basedir}/rules.xml</maven.versions.rules>
	<properties>
        
        <build>
          <plugins>         
            <plugin>
                  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                  <artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                  <version>2.15.0</version>
                  <configuration>
                      <rulesUri>${maven.versions.rules}</rulesUri>
                  </configuration>
            </plugin> 
        </plugins>
    </build>

pom.xml for every submodule

    <properties>
    	<maven.versions.rules>file:///${project.basedir}/../rules.xml</maven.versions.rules>
    </properties>

Thanks for your help

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