sbt-dependency-graph

Visualize your project's dependencies.

Seal publish instructions

Publishing sbt plugins to a nexus repo (maven style repo) is weird.

• Run sbt publishLocal
• Manually upload artifact from pom using nexus web ui
• A symlink should exist for sbt-dependency-graph_2.10_0.13 -> sbt-dependency-graph on the nexus filesystem

Preliminaries

The plugin works best with sbt >= 0.13.6. See the compatibility notes to use this plugin with an older version of sbt.

Usage Instructions

Since sbt-dependency-graph is an informational tool rather than one that changes your build, you will more than likely wish to install it as a [global plugin] so that you can use it in any SBT project without the need to explicitly add it to each one. To do this, add the plugin dependency to ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("net.virtual-void" % "sbt-dependency-graph" % "0.8.2")

To add the plugin only to a single project, put this line into project/plugins.sbt of your project, instead.

This plugin is an auto-plugin which will be automatically enabled starting from sbt 0.13.5.

Main Tasks

• dependencyTree: Shows an ASCII tree representation of the project's dependencies
• dependencyBrowseGraph: Opens a browser window with a visualization of the dependency graph (courtesy of graphlib-dot + dagre-d3).
• dependencyGraph: Shows an ASCII graph of the project's dependencies on the sbt console
• dependencyList: Shows a flat list of all transitive dependencies on the sbt console (sorted by organization and name)
• whatDependsOn <organization> <module> <revision>: Find out what depends on an artifact. Shows a reverse dependency tree for the selected module.
• dependencyLicenseInfo: show dependencies grouped by declared license
• dependencyLicenseInfoHtml: Generates an HTML with dependencies grouped by declared license
• dependencyStats: Shows a table with each module a row with (transitive) Jar sizes and number of dependencies
• dependencyGraphMl: Generates a .graphml file with the project's dependencies to target/dependencies-<config>.graphml. Use e.g. yEd to format the graph to your needs.
• dependencyDot: Generates a .dot file with the project's dependencies to target/dependencies-<config>.dot. Use graphviz to render it to your preferred graphic format.
• ivyReport: let's ivy generate the resolution report for you project. Use show ivyReport for the filename of the generated report

All tasks can be scoped to a configuration to get the report for a specific configuration. test:dependencyGraph, for example, prints the dependencies in the test configuration. If you don't specify any configuration, compile is assumed as usual.

Configuration settings

• filterScalaLibrary: Defines if the scala library should be excluded from the output of the dependency-* functions. If true, instead of showing the dependency "[S]" is appended to the artifact name. Set to false if you want the scala-library dependency to appear in the output. (default: true)
• dependencyGraphMLFile: a setting which allows configuring the output path of dependency-graph-ml.
• dependencyDotFile: a setting which allows configuring the output path of dependency-dot.
• dependencyDotHeader: a setting to customize the header of the dot file (e.g. to set your preferred node shapes).
• dependencyDotNodeLabel: defines the format of a node label (default set to [organisation]<BR/><B>[name]</B><BR/>[version])
• dependencyLicenseInfoHtmlFile: output file for dependencyLicenseInfoHtml
• dependencyLicenseInfoHtmlExcludedOrgs: organizations to exclude from dependencyLicenseInfoHtml

E.g. in build.sbt you can change configuration settings like this:

filterScalaLibrary := false // include scala library in output

dependencyDotFile := file("dependencies.dot") //render dot file to `./dependencies.dot`

Known issues

• [#19]: There's an unfixed bug with graph generation for particular layouts. Workaround: Use dependency-tree instead of dependency-graph.
• [#39]: When using sbt-dependency-graph with sbt < 0.13.6.

Compatibility notes

• sbt < 0.13.6: The plugin will fall back on the old ivy report XML backend which suffers from [#39].

• sbt < 0.13.5: Old versions of sbt have no AutoPlugin support, you need to add

net.virtualvoid.sbt.graph.DependencyGraphSettings.graphSettings

to your `build.sbt` or (`~/.sbt/0.13/user.sbt` for global configuration) to enable the plugin.
* sbt <= 0.12.x: Old versions of sbt are not actively supported any more. Please use the old version from the [0.7 branch](https://github.com/jrudolph/sbt-dependency-graph/tree/0.7).


## License

Published under the [Apache License 2.0](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_license).

[global plugin]: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/tutorial/Using-Plugins.html#Global+plugins
[global build configuration]: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/Global-Settings.html
[#19]: https://github.com/jrudolph/sbt-dependency-graph/issues/19
[#39]: https://github.com/jrudolph/sbt-dependency-graph/issues/39