Adding maven dependencies
My experience using the Maven support in IDEA is limited so far.
Is there some support for adding new dependencies to a pom.xml?
Something like:
Alt-Insert in pom.xml.."Generate...Dependency"
Look through (indexed) repositories (both local and remote), including ones that are declared in current pom.xml
Let me SpeedSearch through a list of all candidates
Let me select one, allow me to exclude some transitive dependencies (if applicable)
It could be smart, eg inside <plugins> it could offer plugins only
The basic idea is getting from "I need to use some library foo" to "getting the relevant stuff into pom.xml" as quickly as possible.
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builtin maven support does not (yet) allow this.
might be worth looking at Maven repo search plugin, which allows to query artifacts available (I think it's only a frontend for a website).
when selecting an artifact you can then rightclick and copy the relevant dependency node for it
I don't know if it's http://mvnrepository.com/ that it fronts, but it not, that's a useful one to use.
Thanks Thibaut, Gwyn.
Of course there are many ways to search the various repositories, and I use some of them.
However, adding a Maven dependency to a project is a relatively common operation, so I would expect IDEA to offer some help here.
Searching through a number of repositories and presenting versions, dependencies to exclude, etc seems an ideal candidate for some automation.
Are there any existing JIRA tickets covering this?