Problems with mergeJar configurations in Eclipse

[ChrisTrenkamp]

I'm attempting to migrate a project to JPMS and am using the merge-jars branch to work around a problem with some dependencies sharing the same package. Specifically, I'm working around some Protostuff dependencies sharing the same package; this configuration seems to fix it:

extraJavaModuleInfo {
	automaticModule("protostuff-core-1.7.2.jar", "io.protostuff") {
		mergeJar("protostuff-api-1.7.2.jar")
		mergeJar("protostuff-collectionschema-1.7.2.jar")
	}
	automaticModule("protostuff-runtime-registry-1.7.2.jar", "io.protostuff.runtime") {
		mergeJar("protostuff-runtime-1.7.2.jar")
	}
	...
}

Building on the commandline succeeds. However, Eclipse seems to have trouble resolving all io.protostuff package imports. The mergeJar configuration is probably not being picked up in Eclipse. I have several other automaticModule configurations, such as automaticModule("jsr305-3.0.2.jar", "jsr305"), and they seem to work in Eclipse.

Are there any solutions for this problem?

[jjohannes]

Hi @ChrisTrenkamp thanks for bringing the "merge-jar" brach up to date. I merged your PR.

Apart from this issue, does this work well for you? As I wrote quite a while back here, I still saw some issues with Jars not merged correctly.

Did you not encounter that, or do you have any additional fixes for that branch? Maybe I can look into integrating this for real again.

Regarding the problem you are seeing: Would you mind creating a complete reproducer project (on GitHub or as Zip attached to this issue)? Then I can have a look.

[jjohannes]

@ChrisTrenkamp I implemented an alternative solution to solve the "mergeJar" case (#1). Although the syntax to use it mostly remained the same - see #1 (comment)

Please give version 0.12 a try.