What is new in Dumpling 2.0?

Dumpling 2.0 is considered feature complete. Let’s see what’s in there!

Modularization of the maven project

One of the crucial use-cases is and always was bundling Dumpling into the application as a maven dependency. Unfortunately, this was not always easy due to a number of transitive dependencies that found its way into Dumpling, most notably com.google.guava:guava and org.codehaus.groovy:groovy*.

Before 2.0, Dumpling was a singlemodule project distributed via maven repository in two flavors: traditional jar to use as a maven dependency for other projects and an uber jar to be used as a CLI client. The dependency creep was a problem for the first use case as those dependencies was for the CLI client mostly. Splitting it up was therefore a natural step.

Modules

core

The core module contains all the factories, data model and DSL as well as all the queries. It will no longer depend on most of the problematic dependencies. This module is expected to be used as a maven dependency.

groovy-api

Groovy interoperability module adds dependency on groovy and a couple of utility classes to build custom groovy interpreters.

cli

The CLI client itself. Module is not supposed to be used as maven dependency and, unlike the other modules, it is not part of Dumpling API.

See Built-in Dumpling for more details.

How to migrate?

The odds are your application depends on classes that ware kept in the core module. The core module will have the same artifactId as the Dumpling 1.0 so no change is needed. Clients that depend on groovy interoperability will need to add dumpling-groovy-api artifact. In case of dependency on classes that are now part of the CLI module, it still may be possible to consume it as a dependency, though this use case is now unsupported.

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