Usage

The saker.maven.classpath() task works on Maven artifacts and creates a classpath object that can be passed to tasks in the saker.java.compiler package and to others which handle classpath input similarly.

The task takes artifact coordinates or already resolved dependencies from the saker.maven.resolve() task. The saker.maven.classpath() task does not perform dependency resolution.

When used in an IDE, the task automatically downloads the associated source artifacts if available.

Artifact classpath

Classpath can be created and used for a given set of artifacts:

saker.java.compile(
	SourceDirectories: src,
	ClassPath: saker.maven.classpath([
		"junit:junit:4.12",
		"org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.19"
	])
)

In the above we create a classpath that references the junit:junit:4.12 and org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.19 artifacts. Note that the dependencies of the artifacts are not resolved.

If the build is invoked in an IDE, the source artifacts are also downloaded.

Dependency classpath

The task can accept resolved dependencies as its input. Extending the example from above:

saker.java.compile(
	SourceDirectories: src,
	ClassPath: saker.maven.classpath(saker.maven.resolve([
		"junit:junit:4.12",
		"org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.19"
	]))
)

We used the saker.maven.resolve() task to resolve the dependencies of the specified artifacts before passing them to the classpath task. This results in the org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.3 artifact being included in the classpath as well (junit depends on it). Usually this is the way you want to use the task.

Repository configuration

The saker.maven.classpath() allows specifying how the repositories should be accessed. It works the same way as the saker.maven.support package allows configuring the repositories.

More information here.