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Status
This RFC is currently in the DRAFT state. Nothing in this RFC has been agreed or confirmed.
Contents
Introduction
The Project Dependency Trees artifact defines all the side artifacts of a project as well as each artifacts tree of dependencies. This can be used by consumers to decide what the consumers effective tree of dependencies is as well as allowing consumers to perform intelligent substitutions in the tree. By providing the entire tree we can reduce the number of requests a consumer needs to make in order to resolve all the artifacts the consumer requires.
TODO write the content and formalise the following example into a schema:
<project modelVersion="..." groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="...">
<information>
<!-- container for descriptive information -->
[<name>...</name>]
[<description>...</description>]
...
</information>
<license spdxId="..."/>
<license spdxId="..."/>
...
<license spdxId="..."/>
<artifacts [platformId="..."]>
<artifact type="..." [classifier="..."]>
<information>
<!-- optional element if need to override root level information for specific artifacts -->
</information>
<!--
components are internal packaging constructs used by the packaging type but requiring more general validation
e.g. for Java 9+ the ids could be the module ids if we wanted to validate that the module ids were unique in the
effective tree.
-->
<component id="..."/>
<component id="..."/>
...
<component id="..."/>
<!--
If the artifact has a different set of licenses from those defined at the project level, we define the licenses
of this artifact here. Otherwise we defer to the licenses defined at the top level of the project.
licensing is a top level concern, and legitimately can vary per artifact. Let's not solve license compatibility,
rather leverage https://spdx.org/
-->
<license spdx:id="..."/>
<license spdx:id="..."/>
...
<license spdx:id="..."/>
<!--
provides is a marker that we have duplication of content. This could be because we are much like the many servlet-api jar
files where there are many GAV's of the same javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0 thus we could have the case where
org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet:jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec:jar:1.0.2.Final PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet:jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec:jar:1.0.1.Final PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet:jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec:jar:1.0.0.Final PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api-3.0:jar:7.0.0pre2 PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
similarly
org.slf4j:log4j-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.21 PROVIDES log4j:log4j:[1.0,2)
The consumer of the tree can then decide if/when/how to collapse redundant nodes as they see fit.
TODO: decide optionality of version and range attributes
-->
<provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]>
<!-- no elements here as we have "rebundled" hence implicitly promoted up one level-->
</provides>
<provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
...
<provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
<!--
requires are the mandatory dependencies. This is effectively a recursive artifact where the GAV is not inherited and
where we have discarded the information section. If you want those details, fetch that project's dependencies trees.
-->
<requires groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." range="..." type="..." [classifier="..."]>
<component id="..."/>
<license spdx:id="..."/>
<provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
<requires groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." range="..." type="..." [classifier="..."]>
...
</requires>
<supports groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
</requires>
<requires groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." range="..." type="..." [classifier="..."]>
...
</requires>
...
<requires groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." range="..." type="..." [classifier="..."]>
...
</requires>
<!--
supports are the optional dependencies. We list them here to aid in conflict resolution. We do not include a nested tree
as a consumer would only pull them in if the consumer already has its own a requires for them, so we really only
need to validate the range.
TODO: decide optionality of range attribute
TODO: decide if we want a version attribute
-->
<supports groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
<supports groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
<supports groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
</artifact>
<artifact ...>
...
</artifact>
...
<artifact ...>
...
</artifact>
</artifacts>
<!-- if the project does not specify a platformId then we can include additional platform details that were part of the atomic deployment -->
<artifacts platformId="...">
...
</artifacts>
...
<artifacts platformId="...">
...
</artifacts>
</project>
Schema
Here is a draft XML schema:
<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >
<xsd:simpleType name=”coordinate”>
<xsd:restriction base=”xsd:string”>
<!-- TODO add pattern for groupId/artifactId/platformId/version/type/classifier valid values -->
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>
<xs:element name="project">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><project></code> element is the root of the project
dependency trees.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="modelVersion" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:all>
<xs:element ref="information" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element ref="license" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="artifacts" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:all>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="information">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><information></code> element is a container for
descriptive information about either all the artifacts in a project or
a specific artifact.</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:all>
<xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element name="description" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="1"/>
<!-- TODO add additional elements -->
</xs:all>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="license" xmlns:spdx="http://spdx.org/rdf/terms#">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><license></code> element defines one of the licenses
under which the artifacts are made available. Where a license is
attached to the <code><project></code> element this defines the
default licenses for all artifacts in the project. Where a license is
attached to an <code><artifact></code> element this signifies
that the specific artifact is covered by the
<code><license></code> elements defined within that
<code><artifact></code> element. Licenses are identified using
the <a href="http://spdx.org">SPDX</a> identifiers</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="spdxId" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="artifacts">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><artifacts></code> element is a container for
details of artifacts. When the <code><artifacts></code> attribute
is missing, then the artifacts listed are not platform specific.
The <code><artifacts></code> must be unique with respect to their
<code><platformId></code>, i.e. it cannot be repeated.
If the <code><project></code> element has a
<code><platformId></code> then there must be only one
<code><artifacts></code> element and it must have the matching
<code><platformId></code>.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref="artifact" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="artifact">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><artifact></code> element represents an artifact
associated with the project.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:all>
<xs:element ref="information" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xs:element ref="license" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="component" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="provides" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="requires" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="supports" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:all>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="component">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><component></code> element represents a type specific
component that is present within the artifact. For example a "jar"
artifact might list the Java 9+ modules that are included within
the "jar". Other file types can use the component according to the
conventions of that file type. The component information is intended
to assist build time tools in conflict detection when resolving
the composite dependency tree according to the build tools
dependency resolution strategy.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="provides">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><provides></code> element represents a semantic
equivalence with another artifact. There are several ways the element
can be used.
<nl>
<li>
When an artifact directly includes the same content as another
project's artifacts, for example there are some "jar" files that
will embed other artifacts to produce a so-called "uber-jar".
</li>
<li>
When an artifact re-implements the API of another project's
artifact. For example: log4j-over-slf4j reimplements the log4j
API.
</li>
<li>
When a set of projects are co-operating to provide multiple
implementations of a "virtual" project artifact. For example:
slf4j-log4j, slf4j-jul, and logback could all be considered
as providing a slf4j-impl virtual project artifact. There would
be no actual project at the slf4j-impl coordinates, but
slf4j-api could declare a requirement on the "virtual" project
artifact in order to ensure that an implementation is available
to consumers of the API
</nl>
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="range" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="requires">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><requires></code> element represents a hard dependency
on another project's artifact. If the <code><version></code>
attribute is missing then this indicates that the dependency is
a virtual dependency, and there must be no child elements.
The <code><modelVersion></code> attribute must only be present
if the dependent project's <code><modelVersion></code> is newer
than the <code><modelVersion></code> specified on the root
<code><project></code> element. The presence of this element
indicates that the child information was the result of an XSLT
transformation of a newer <code><modelVersion></code> and
indicates that a build tool understanding the newer
<code><modelVersion></code> may want to fetch the dependencies
tree and process it directly in order to obtain the most correct
model of the dependency.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:attribute name="range" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:attribute name="modelVersion" type="xs:string" use="optional"/>
<xs:all>
<xs:element ref="license" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="component" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="provides" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="requires" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xs:element ref="supports" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
</xs:all>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="supports">
<xs:annotation>
<xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>
<xs:documentation source="description">
The <code><supports></code> element represents a soft dependency
on another project's artifact. This element is provided in order to
allow build time tools to perform conflict resolution when determining
the effective tree from multiple dependencies.
</xs:documentation>
</xs:annotation>
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
<xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="range" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>
<xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>