How to exclude unnecessary unmanaged dependencies from packaging?

Question

I want to create a standalone version of my application and was wondering how i could exclude an unmanaged *.jar file to be packaged. It's the "mariaDB4j-2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" file I solely use in tests which is about 56MB huge.

I tried to put the jar file into a custom directory 'test/lib'. Unfortunately, this did not exclude mariaDB4j from packaging.

unmanagedBase <<= baseDirectory { base => base / "test/lib" }

unmanagedJars in Test <<= unmanagedBase  map { base => (base ** "mariaDB4j-2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar").classpath }

Any thoughts on this?

Cheers Oliver

Answer 1

I think you want to add to the testing classpath.

Two things:

1. You can check out what's on the classpath using show test:fullClasspath to make sure your jar is on there. Using inspect test:fullClasspath will show you what the dependencies used for testing are.

2. I think you can directly add your jar to the classpath via:

   fullClasspath in Test += Attributed.blank(baseDirectory.value / "test/lib/mariaDB4j-2.0-SNAPSHOT")

Hope that helps!