[MDEP-839] dependency:list should output a plain list when used with a file

[jira-importer]

Christoph Läubrich opened MDEP-839 and commented

There is a parameter to redirect the output to a file:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/list-mojo.html#outputFile

This currently has some issues I would not expect when redirecting such content to a file:

1. First line in the file is empty
2. Second line says 'The following files have been resolved:'
3. next lines are indented
4. ANSI Escape Characters are emmited e.g. �[36m -- module maven.core�[0;1;33m (auto)�[m

What I would expect:

Each line just contains the raw resolved dependency e.g. "org.apache.maven:maven-core:jar:3.8.6:provided" and no more content is printed out, especially no ANSI Escapes

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• GitHub Pull Request #495
  

[jira-importer]

Michael Osipov commented

ANSI escapes must not be in the file, that is a bug.

[jira-importer]

Michael Osipov commented

There is a workaround: Run Maven with -B.

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

Which command are you running specifically? Different commands run along different code paths and produce different output.

[jira-importer]

Christoph Läubrich commented

If I remember correctly just a simple ```
dependency:list

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

so something like:

mvn dependency:list -DoutputFile=temp.txt

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

Note that depending on what's in the tree there can be other messages here as well. Specifically:

"The following files were skipped:" and "The following files have NOT been resolved:"

This goal does not seem to be meant to produce a machine readable list of dependencies.

[jira-importer]

Christoph Läubrich commented

Yes the documentation says:

If specified, this parameter causes the dependencies to be written to the path specified instead of the console.

So I would have expected it only prints the dependencies itself in a somewhat machine readable format, at least not something with some strange color codes or arbitrary messages.

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

I'm unable to reproduce the escape codes in the file:

 mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.8.1:list -DoutputFile=temp.txt

 

Anyone have a test case that shows this?

[jira-importer]

Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

I've fixed as much of this as I could reproduce and that we want to fix. I could not reproduce the issue with ANSI escape characters. If anyone can reproduce that in a test case, we can reopen.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold commented

I've fixed as much of this as I could reproduce and that we want to fix. I could not reproduce the issue with ANSI escape characters. If anyone can reproduce that in a test case, we can reopen.

@elharo issue is still occurring with 3.9.0; see https://github.com/tiffmaelite/maven-dependency-plugin-ansi-codes-bug