The maven-dependency-plugin
identifies what it believes to be unused dependencies when you compile by producing warnings at compile time.
[WARNING] Unused declared dependencies found:
[WARNING] org.foo:bar-api:jar:1.7.5:compile
In some cases this message is a false positive and the dependency is required transitively.
Question: How can I identify in my pom.xml
that this is the case?
You should configure in your pom the ignoredDependencies
element:
List of dependencies that will be ignored. Any dependency on this list will be excluded from the "declared but unused" and the "used but undeclared" list. The filter syntax is:
[groupId]:[artifactId]:[type]:[version]
where each pattern segment is optional and supports full and partial * wildcards. An empty pattern segment is treated as an implicit wildcard. *
As also specified by the official Exclude dependencies from dependency analysis. A sample configuration would be:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>analyze-dep</id>
<goals>
<goal>analyze-only</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<ignoredDependencies>
<ignoredDependency>org.foo:bar-api:jar:1.7.5</ignoredDependency>
</ignoredDependencies>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
That was nearly what i was looking for, but i guess you specify that a little more like:
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>analyze-only</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
<ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependencies>
<ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependency>org.reflections:reflections:*</ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependency>
</ignoredUnusedDeclaredDependencies>
<ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependencies>
<ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>junit:*:*</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependency>
</ignoredUsedUndeclaredDependencies>
<ignoreNonCompile>false</ignoreNonCompile>
<outputXML>true</outputXML>
</configuration>
</execution>
So this does nearly the same but is more specific on which kind of dependencies should be ignored
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