Suggestion: Add a parameter to control the sort of dependencies in dependencymanagement

[ssquan]

If someone wants dependencies to be sorted first by scope in dependencies, but groupId in dependencyManagement, they will need a parameter independent of sortDependencies.
I would like to create a pull request for this.

[Ekryd]

Interesting! What it the use case?
Would it be some kind of sortDependencyManagements (or sortManagementDependencies) param that would take precedence if present and would fallback sortDependencies if not present?

You are always welcome to create a PR. Be aware that I try to stay at 100% test coverage and I have an integration test for each parameter.

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Branch issue-210-Suggestion_Add_a_parameter_to_control_the_sort_of_dependencies_in_dependencymanagement created!

[ssquan]

The common case is someone controls the version of dependency by BOMs but doesn't declare scope in the dependencyMangement section. In this case, dependencies in the dependencyMangement section should be sorted first by some element not socpe such as groupId since there is no scope at all.

Declare scope in dependencyMangement is not a good practice. Here is a discussion in stackoverflow :https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15221299/dependencymanagement-and-scope

[Ekryd]

Couldn't that be fixed by setting sort to scope, groupId, artifactId? If there is not scope, then the plugin wouldn't care about and just sort by the next listed sort criteria.

[Ekryd]

I fixed the integration test and added a few test cases. Just discovered that we need this precise functionality; to sort all dependencies but not dependencyManagement all (due to bom conflicts).
Our configuration will look like this:

            <sortDependencies>scope,groupId,artifactId</sortDependencies>
            <sortDependencyManagement>none</sortDependencyManagement>

I'll try to merge it promptly

[Ekryd]

The code should be in master now, please pull down the latest source code, compile it and try it out. You can set the version to 3.1.4-SNAPSHOT in your project temporarily.
Tell me if it works for you

[Ekryd]

New version 3.2.0 is released. Enjoy!