sbt-eclipsedeplocal

sbt plugin to rewrite eclipse classpath of a dependency as a local project

Overview

sbt-eclipsedeplocal adds one main task:

edlLocalizeDependency

rewrites the .classpath of a given library dependency as a local project

Installation

NOTE: requires sbt 1.x

add to project/plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("com.github.bdkent" % "sbt-eclipsedeplocal" % "0.1.0")

enable in build.sbt:

enablePlugins(SbtEclipseDependencyLocalizePlugin)

Usage

edlLocalizeDependency

Let's assume you have a two projects, a library (awesome-library) and an app (awesome-app), where the app includes the library.

So awesome-app's build.sbt includes it like so:

libraryDependencies += "org.foo" % "awesome-library" % "0.1.0"

and you are actively developing both in Scala IDE, so you have both projects open as /awesome-app and /awesome-library.

Using sbt-eclipse's eclipse command, the /awesome-app project will depend on the published artifact (assumedly somewhere in $HOME/.ivy2), not the (unrelated from sbt's perspective) Scala IDE project.

This is where the edlLocalizeDependency task comes in!

The following will rewrite the .classpath in /awesome-app to reference the /awesome-library Scala IDE project instead of the publsihed artifact:

sbt:awesome-app> edlLocalizeDependency  org.foo:awesome-library:0.1.0  awesome-library

If the Scala IDE's project name is the same as the name of the artifact (which is the case in the example), you can drop the redundant second parameter:

sbt:awesome-app> edlLocalizeDependency  org.foo:awesome-library:0.1.0