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Reputation: 37

Prevent Maven from compiling with an older transitive dependency version

In my Maven project, I have the following dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.projectA</groupId>
    <artifactId>projectA</artifactId>
    <version>1.10.0</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

This dependency includes a transitive dependency on projectB version 2.2.0.

Additionally, I have another direct dependency on an older version of the same library:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.projectB</groupId>
    <artifactId>projectB</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.0</version>
</dependency>

How can I ensure that my project fails to compile if an older version (e.g., 2.1.0) of projectB is used, and always enforces version with is used by projectA?

I want to prevent the project from accidentally using a lower version of the projectB dependency.

Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 64

Answers (1)

J Fabian Meier
J Fabian Meier

Reputation: 35853

You can use the requireUpperBoundDeps rule of the Maven enforcer plugin:

https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/requireUpperBoundDeps.html

which is made for situations like this.

Upvotes: 1

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