modules and tests

[Sander Mak]

On 24 Nov 2016, at 14:31, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com<mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>> wrote:

On 24/11/2016 08:46, Remi Forax wrote:

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It's not obvious at it seems, it requires javac to be able to merge several module-info.java into one, and because the module descriptor allows to restrict exports or opens, the merging rules* as to be specified.

Have you run into anything that isn't solved by compiling with -Xmodule:<module> and/or specify --add-reads and --add-exports to augment the module declaration? I realize it's awkward to specify these options but in time then I would expect the build tools and test runners to make this a lot easier.

For a concrete example of this: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2016-March/006594.html (modulo the old-style flags). Later I ported the same example to the a Maven build, which takes care of all this setup under the hood. Worked fine, without having to fiddle with -Xmodule/-Xpatch and readability to test-scope dependencies happens automatically in that case.


Sander