IntelliJ IDEA Library Generation From Ant Path

For the last few months I've been using the Ivy dependency manager on one of my ${work} projects, Ivy's been working great and I've now got 2-3 other projects publishing their dependencies via Ivy for my use.

An annoying offshoot of this is that whenever an update triggers in these other applications, I get a new binary with a new/different version number included. This likes to break IDEA and trigger lots of evil red error lines from the missing (old) library.

This morning I decided to put an end to it and whipped up a small Ant task to regenerate a project's library definitions based on an Ant path object.

Now I have in my build.xml:

<target name="update-library">
  <taskdef resource="ideatasks" classpathref="path.ivy.libs"/>
  <idealibrary projectFile="mobilemail.ipr">
    <libraryPath name="ivy-dependencies" refid="path.ivy.libs"/>
  </idealibrary>
</target>

The task is a simple, quick hack - but it does the trick nicely.

binary - source - bazaar-ng repository

tags: java  ivy  ant  dependency  intellij  

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