apache / apache/maven-enforcer
[MENFORCER-432] requireUpperBoundDeps support for checking dependencyManagement
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Description
**[Marcono1234](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=marcono1234)** opened **[MENFORCER-432](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MENFORCER-432?redirect=false)** and commented
For projects which are either used as parent by other projects, or which are used as Bill of Materials (BOM) and which declare dependencies in the `dependencyManagement` it would be useful if `requireUpperBoundDeps` was able to check the dependencies in the `dependencyManagement`. This would allow verifying that the versions of these managed dependencies are correct and do not cause any issues for consuming projects.
Currently `requireUpperBoundDeps` seems to only check regular dependencies; this prevents it from being used directly on the parent / BOM project, but requires applying it on all consuming projects.
It would be quite useful to already detect conflicting dependency versions directly in the parent / BOM project.
Maybe a separate option for this (e.g. `checkDependencyManagement`) would be useful to allow enabling / disabling this check.
It appears maven-dependency-tree already determines those managed dependencies in `DefaultDependencyCollectorBuilder` respectively `Maven31DependencyCollectorBuilder` (in older versions), but does not expose this information.
### Example
```xml
4.0.0
com.example
my-bom
1
pom
org.slf4j
slf4j-api
1.4.0
ch.qos.logback
logback-classic
0.9.9
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-enforcer-plugin
3.2.1
enforce
enforce
```
Running `mvn validate` passes. Only when changing the `dependencyManagement` to regular dependencies Maven Enforcer detects the rule violation.
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**Affects:** 3.1.0, 3.2.1
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Research direction
Start with the requireUpperBoundDeps rule and inspect how maven-dependency-tree determines managed dependencies in DefaultDependencyCollectorBuilder and the older Maven31DependencyCollectorBuilder. Use the provided BOM example as a reproduction and verify that dependencyManagement conflicts are detected, with a way to enable or disable the check if that design is retained.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100