I would like to distribute a jar of a library I created with all my dependencies bundled inside. However I would like to avoid version conflicts of dependencies with the adopting project.
I think maven shade can do this but I could not find a way to do this with Scala / SBT. I found OneJar however from my experiments with it seems to work only for executables.
How could I achieve this?
Thanks!
You can do this with your own classloader.
The classLoader:
Write a class loader which loads class files from diferent classloader using a rewrite.
For example you could add library as a prefix to the classpath when fetching the resource.
I have created a classloader using this teqnuiqe.
https://github.com/espenbrekke/dependent/blob/master/src/main/java/no/dependent/hacks/PathRewritingClassLoader.java
It replaces the method findClass in URLClassLoader with one adding a prefix.
protected Class<?> findClass(final String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
Class result;
try {
result = (Class)AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedExceptionAction() {
public Class<?> run() throws ClassNotFoundException {
// This is where the prefix is added:
String path = PathRewritingClassLoader.this.prefix + name.replace('.', '/').concat(".class");
Resource res = PathRewritingClassLoader.this._ucp.getResource(path, false);
if(res != null) {
try {
return PathRewritingClassLoader.this._defineClass(name, res);
} catch (IOException var4) {
throw new ClassNotFoundException(name, var4);
}
} else {
return null;
}
}
}, this._acc);
} catch (PrivilegedActionException var4) {
throw (ClassNotFoundException)var4.getException();
}
if(result == null) {
throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
} else {
return result;
}
}
We also have to rewrite resource loading
@Override
public URL getResource(String name){
return super.getResource(prefix+name);
}
Here is how it is used:
_dependentClassLoader = new PathRewritingClassLoader("private", (URLClassLoader)DependentFactory.class.getClassLoader());
Class myImplementationClass=_dependentClassLoader.loadClass("my.hidden.Implementation");
Building your jar:
In your build you place all the library and private classes under your selected prefix. In my gradle build I have a simple loop collecting all the dependencies.
task packageImplementation {
dependsOn cleanImplementationClasses
doLast {
def paths = project.configurations.runtime.asPath
paths.split(':').each { dependencyJar ->
println "unpacking" + dependencyJar
ant.unzip(src: dependencyJar,
dest: "build/classes/main/private/",
overwrite: "true")
}
}
}
Proguard can rename packages inside jar and obfuscate code. It is a bit complicated but you can achieve you goal with it. sbt-proguard plugin is actively maintained
Also you can check answers from similar thread:
maven-shade like plugin for SBT
UPDATE:
from version 0.14.0 sbt-assembly plugin seemed to have shading ability
Have you tried sbt-assembly plugin? It has set of merging strategies in case of conflicts and has pretty much nice start guide.
