IVY How to find specific dependency configuration is in use? - ant

Question

I have my version.xml in a project where I defined all the IVY configurations and dependencies. I use ANT script to download and retrieve artefacts and everything is OK so far.
What I am looking for is that in anyway I can find if certain configuration is present in version.xml and some dependency is confgured to use it from an ANT script, like check as I want to do some extra stuff if it is configured other wise simply skip. For example my version.xml looks like as follows;
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://repository.temenosgroup.com/xsl/version-doc.xsl"?>
<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:e="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/extra">
<info organisation="TEMENOS" branch="MAIN" module="StateEngine" />
<!-- "war->compile(*)" this means the 'war' configuration depends on the
'compile' configuration of the dependency and if the dependency is not
found in 'compile' then use the 'default' (same as '*') config (usually that is all dependencies) -->
<configurations defaultconfmapping="test->test(*);compile->compile(*);componentDep->componentDep(*)">
<conf name="test" description="Test Time dependencies"/>
<conf name="compile" description="Build Time dependencies"/>
<conf name="componentDep" description="To resolve component level dependencies" />
</configurations>
<publications>
<artifact name="#SERVICE_NAME#" type="" ext="zip" />
<artifact name="#SERVICE_NAME#" type="" ext="zip" e:platform="#PLATFORM_WIN#" />
<artifact name="#SERVICE_NAME#" type="" ext="zip" e:platform="#PLATFORM_UNIX#" />
</publications>
<dependencies>
....
<!-- Define Component Level Dependencies Below -->
<dependency org="TEMENOS" branch="MAIN" name="StateMachine" transitive="false" rev="latest-dev" conf="componentDep" >
<artifact name="StateMachineService" ext="zip" e:platform="#PLATFORM_WIN#" type="" conf="componentDep" />
<artifact name="StateMachineService" ext="zip" e:platform="#PLATFORM_UNIX#" type="" conf="componentDep" />
<artifact name="StateMachineService" ext="zip" type="" conf="componentDep" />
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</ivy-module>
So, is there any target available within ANT like 'ivy:...' which can return 'true' or 'false' some how tell me that there is a dependency which is trying to use configuration called 'componentDep'? so that I can do my extra stuff..otherwise skip. I do not want to parse the file myself within ANT as this is not a very good idea.
Note: I am using ANT 1.8.2 and IVY 2.2.0
Hope I am making sense. Please let me know if you need more information.
Thanks,
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Sjunejo

Answer 1

Ivy normally resolves using a file called ivy.xml.....
I suspect that your version.xml file is designed to be substituted? Perhaps your build is generating the ivy file at run-time?
Reasons for suspicions
The names of the files published by ivy do not appear valid.... I doubt you're creatung 3 files called #SERVICE_NAME#.zip
<publications>
<artifact name="#SERVICE_NAME#" type="" ext="zip" />
<artifact name="#SERVICE_NAME#" type="" ext="zip" e:platform="#PLATFORM_WIN#" />
<artifact name="#SERVICE_NAME#" type="" ext="zip" e:platform="#PLATFORM_UNIX#" />
</publications>
Somewhere else in your build I think there's a filtered copy going on.....
Possible answer to your original question
I think you're looking for an ivy resolution report? This creates a HTML report of the files associated with each of your project's configurations. Used as follows:
<target name="init">
<ivy:resolve/>
<ivy:report todir='${ivy.reports.dir}' graph='false' xml='false'/>
..
</target>