How to attach source code of libraries downloaded with ivy

Question

I use ivy with the ivy eclipse plugin to download dependencies. Works great. But how can I attach the source code for those libraries, in order to step into these libraries?

Baer

Answer 1

Have you tried attaching the source configurations?

<dependencies defaultconfmapping="*->default,sources">

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doesn't seem to do anything. Does this actually work for you? Or is it just an idea? – Baer

Now it works for me as well. I had to do 'resolve' via menu. Strange, I thought it does that whenever one edits the ivy.xml ... anyway. Thanx for the help – Baer

FYI, there's an IvyDE console to get more information about what IvyDE is doing. Open the regular Eclipse console, and there's a dropdown menu giving you a list of console types. IvyDE should be in there, and if you switch to it, you'll get another menu to change the log level. – Artilleryman

This doesn't work for me. "ivy -verbose" shows the 'sources' being added to every fetch, and the Ivy cache shows configurations with 'sources', but I see no sources. Ivy 2.3. – Afterburning

Answer 2

There is an ant task that will modify the .classpath file to reference the source attachments.

Atrocity

Answer 3

I use the IvyDE plugin, and it seems to automatically download and attach sources. I'm using Eclipse Kepler with Apache IvyDE 2.2.0. I didn't have to do anything special in my ivy.xml file or in my Ant build: it just works.

There is a preferences page that might relate to this. For me, it's Window > Preferences > Ivy > Source/Javadoc Mapping:

Those settings affect your entire workspace.

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