[MDEP-927] dependency:tree excludes parameter does not work

[jira-importer]

Seva Popov opened MDEP-927 and commented

The dependency:tree excludes parameter does not work in any plugin version available for download.

Ex.:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.6.1:tree -s ~/.m2/settings.xml -Dexcludes=javax:javaee-api:jar:8.0.1  | grep javax.javaee

[INFO] +- javax:javaee-api:jar:8.0.1:provided

According to the documentation the dependency should have been excluded - https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/tree-mojo.html#excludes

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Affects: 3.6.1

[jira-importer]

Kariem Hussein commented

I have a similar problem and tried to describe it in this question on Stack Overflow.

Steps to reproduce

1. Check out spring-ws, at version 4.0.11
2. Change to directory spring-ws-core
3. Run tree goal with scope filtered to runtime

mvn dependency:tree -Dscope=runtime

1. Filter the output to exclude org.glassfish.jaxb:jaxb-runtime:jar:4.0.5

mvn dependency:tree -Dscope=runtime -Dexcludes=org.glassfish.jaxb:jaxb-runtime

→ The dependency is still included in the output, although it should have been filtered.

Filtering on jakarta.mail-api works witout problems

I have also tried this with version 3.8.0 of the plugin

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:3.8.0:tree ...

Also, I can reproduce the problem in version 2.8, which is the one implicitly used when running inside of spring-ws.