Need some help to figure out how to run this

[oshai]

Saw the readme and I think it will be nice to get some more info on how to run:
depends.jar - where can I obtain it? should I build the repo?
com.mycompany.app:my-app:1.0-SNAPSHOT - is this my artifact id? should I run in from maven/gradle dir?

[avantgardnerio]

where can I obtain it? should I build the repo?

Yes, thank you. For now you have to build from source. I will look into:

1. deploying this to maven central as an artifact
2. putting it up as a release on github
3. turning it into a maven / gradle plugin

This is honestly pretty early stage. For now, I updated the readme. Please run ./gradlew build to build.

how to run: depends.jar

I've updated that as well. After the build, you will have build/libs/depends-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar so run:

java -jar build/libs/depends-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.mycompany.app:my-app:1.0-SNAPSHOT --filter=JsonParseException

com.mycompany.app:my-app:1.0-SNAPSHOT - is this my artifact id?

Exactly. You'll need to run mvn install or gradle install on your project, to put build your code and put the resulting jar into your maven/gradle local cache. After you've done that, you can run depends on it.

I'm looking for suggestions on how to make this easier. #3 from the above list was suggested on Hacker News, and that sounds like the best user experience, so I will look into that option.

[oshai]

Thanks, I updated the readme to reflect how I understand it: #4
I will try to work on it a bit then might have more questions or suggestions. build tool plugin sounds like a nice idea indeed.