org.sonatype.aether.collection

Interface DependencySelector

All Known Implementing Classes:

AndDependencySelector, ExclusionDependencySelector, OptionalDependencySelector, ScopeDependencySelector, StaticDependencySelector

public interface DependencySelector

Decides what dependencies to include in the dependency graph. Note: For the sake of good performance during dependency collection, implementations should provide a semantic equals() method.

Author:

Benjamin Bentmann

See Also:

RepositorySystemSession.getDependencySelector(), RepositorySystem.collectDependencies(org.sonatype.aether.RepositorySystemSession, CollectRequest)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DependencySelector	deriveChildSelector(DependencyCollectionContext context) Derives a dependency selector for the specified collection context.
boolean	selectDependency(Dependency dependency) Applies exclusions to the specified dependency.

Method Detail

selectDependency

boolean selectDependency(Dependency dependency)

Applies exclusions to the specified dependency.

Parameters:

dependency - The dependency to filter, must not be null.

Returns:

false if the dependency should be excluded from the children of the current node, true otherwise.

deriveChildSelector

DependencySelector deriveChildSelector(DependencyCollectionContext context)

Derives a dependency selector for the specified collection context. When calculating the child selector, implementors are strongly advised to simply return the current instance if nothing changed to help save memory.

Parameters:

context - The dependency collection context, must not be null.

Returns:

The dependency filter for the target node, must not be null.