extend-ivy-module-example.txt

An example on extending an Ivy module

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  ivysettings.xml
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ivysettings>
    <settings defaultResolver="<default_resolver_name>"/>

    <property name="m2.repo.relpath" value="[organisation]/[module]/[revision]"/>
    <property name='parent.artifact-name' value='<main_artifact_name>'/>
    <property name='parent.version' value='<main_artifact_revision>'/>

    ...

</ivysettings>

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  ivy.xml
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd">

    <info
        organisation='<organisation_name>'
        module='${parent.artifact-name}'
        revision='${parent.version}'/>

    <dependencies defaultconf="default">
        ...dependencies...
    </dependencies>

    ...

</ivy-module>

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  ivy-child.xml
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd">

    <info 
        organisation='<organisation_name>'
        module='<child_module_name>'
        revision='${parent.version}'>

        <extends
             organisation='<organisation_name>'
             module='${parent.artifact-name}'
             revision='${parent.version}'
             location='./ivy.xml'/>

    </info>

    ...

</ivy-module>