hi folks, i have a question about the usage of the <kotest-bom>. I was trying to harmonize the kotes...

# kotest

[abendt]

hi folks,
i have a question about the usage of the kotest-bom. I was trying to harmonize the kotest version numbers in a maven multimodule setup and put the kotest-bom into the parent of that project. I have noticed that the bom does not contain all kotest artifacts (e.g. kotest-assertions-core-jvm is not there). In effect i had to define the mentioned dependency with the version number. Is it on purpose that the bom does not contain all kotest artifacts?

[Adam S]

e.g. kotest-assertions-core is not there

are you sure? blob smile

[Adam S]

what’s the error you were trying to solve?

[abendt]

ah sorry, i meant kotest-assertions-core-jvm

[Emil Kantis]

Maybe we could add platformspecific names as well. I suppose the BOM plays well with gradle but not maven

[Adam S]

it’s intentional that the platform variants are missing from the pom.xml - they’re shared via the Gradle Module Metadata https://stackoverflow.com/q/73914158/4161471

[Adam S]

@Emil Kantis yeah, some libraries add the -jvm variant to the pom.xml of the unflavoured variant of each project

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/4a7ada862186368d72086cf01c2359e118ee232c/gradle/publish-mpp-root-module-in-platform.gradle

that shouldn’t need to be done in the BOM though - it’ll get picked up via the specific projects

[Adam S]

(btw a ‘Maven project integration test’ would be another good use the maven-publish-test plugin in the Android integration test PR)

[abendt]

ok, thanks for the explanations 🙏🏾
i think currently the bom is of limited use for maven. i will then define the kotest deps in the dependencyManagemement of the project parent.

[Adam S]

I think that’s the best solution for now @abendt

[Adam S]

you could just copy+paste the BOM pom.xl, and do a find-replace to add the -jvm suffix https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/kotest/kotest-bom/5.5.5/kotest-bom-5.5.5.pom

[Adam S]

it’s a drawback of (pick your least favourite) Kotlin Multiplatform / Maven / Gradle that hasn’t been resolved yet

[Emil Kantis]

https://github.com/kotest/kotest/issues/3417