resolvers

Tag: resolvers

Defines a list of dependency resolvers usable in ivy. Each dependency resolver is identified by its name, given as an attribute.

The child tag used for the dependency resolver must be equal to a name of a dependency resolver type (either built-in or added with the typedef tag).

since 1.3 Once defined, resolvers can be referenced by their name, using the following syntax:

<resolver ref="alreadydefinedresolver"/>

Note that this works only if the resolver has been already defined, and not if it is defined later in the ivysettings file.

Child elements

Element	Description	Cardinality
any resolver	adds a resolver to the list of available resolvers	1..n

Built-in Resolvers

Ivy comes with a set of built-in dependency resolvers able to answer to the most common needs.

If you don't find the one you want here, you can also check if some one has not contributed it in the links page, or even write your own.

There are basically two types of resolver in Ivy: composite and standard resolvers. A composite resolver is a resolver which delegates the work to other resolvers. The other resolvers are standard resolvers.

Here is the list of built-in resolvers:

Name	Type	Description
IvyRep	Standard	Finds ivy files on ivyrep and artifacts on ibiblio.
IBiblio	Standard	Finds artifacts on ibiblio.
FileSystem	Standard	This very performant resolver finds ivy files and artifacts in your file system.
Url	Standard	Finds ivy files and artifacts in any repository accessible with urls.
Vfs	Standard	Finds ivy files and artifacts in any repository accessible with apache commons vfs.
ssh	Standard	Finds ivy files and artifacts in any repository accessible with ssh.
sftp	Standard	Finds ivy files and artifacts in any repository accessible with sftp.
Chain	Composite	Delegates the finding to a chain of sub resolvers.
Dual	Composite	Delegates the finding of ivy files to one resolver and of artifacts to another.

Common attributes

All resolvers of the same type share some common attributes detailed here:

Attribute	Description	Required	Composite	Standard
name	the name which identify the resolver	Yes	Yes	Yes
validate	indicates if resolved ivy files should be validated against ivy xsd	No, defaults to call setting	Yes	Yes
checkmodified	Indicates if this resolver should check lastmodified date to know if an ivy file is up to date.	No, defaults to ${ivy.resolver.default.check.modified}	No	Yes
changingPattern	Indicates for which revision pattern this resolver should check lastmodified date to know if an artifact file is up to date. since 1.4. See cache and change management for details.	No, defaults to none	Yes	Yes
changingMatcher	The name of the pattern matcher to use to match a revision against the configured changingPattern. since 1.4. See cache and change management for details.	No, defaults to exactOrRegexp	Yes	Yes
alwaysCheckExactRevision	Indicates if this resolver should check the given revision even if it's a special one (like latest.integration). since 1.3	No, defaults to ${ivy.default.always.check.exact.revision}	No	Yes
namespace	The name of the namespace to which this resolver belong since 1.3	No, defaults to 'system'	Yes	Yes
checkconsistency	true to check consistency of module descriptors found by this resolver, false to avoid consistency check since 1.3	No, defaults to true	No	Yes
allownomd	true if the absence of module descriptor (usually an ivy file) is authorised for this resolver, false to refuse modules without module descriptor since 1.4	No, defaults to true	No (except dual)	Yes
checksums	a comma separated list of checksum algorithms to use both for publication and checking since 1.4	No, defaults to ${ivy.checksums}	No	Yes
latest	The name of the latest strategy to use.	No, defaults to 'default'	Yes	Yes

Examples

<resolvers>
  <filesystem name="1">
    <ivy pattern="${ivy.settings.dir}/1/[organisation]/[module]/ivys/ivy-[revision].xml"/>
    <artifact pattern="${ivy.settings.dir}/1/[organisation]/[module]/[type]s/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"/>
  </filesystem>
  <chain name="chain1">
    <resolver ref="1"/>
    <ivyrep name="ivyrep"/>
  </chain>
  <chain name="chain2" returnFirst="true" dual="true">
    <resolver ref="1"/>
    <ibiblio name="ibiblio"/>
  </chain>
</resolvers>

Defines a filesystem resolver, named '1', which is then used in two chains, the first which seconds the filesystem resolver with an ivyrep resolver, and second which seconds the filesystem resolver with an ibiblio resolver, and which returns the first module found, and uses the whole chain to download artifacts (see corresponding resolvers documentation for details about them).