ivy.xml is modified in ivy cache

Question

Just discovered strange behavior of Ant Ivy cache and want to ensure that is not a bug but was implemented by intention.

I publish my module to the local repository, then ivy retrieves it to the cache while building another module. Good.

But if you navigate into cache directory (~/.ivy2/cache/[organisation]/[module]/) you'll see two flavors of module's ivy.xml file:

ivy-VERSION.xml.original
ivy-VERSION.xml

The first one is exactly the same as I have in my repository, while the second is obviously modified. For example it has status="release" (in the repository it is "integration"), publication timestamp is also changed (to the moment cache is updated).

Could somebody confirm this is correct behavior of the cache?

robowen5mac robowen5mac · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-09T19:35:14

Very late to the party here, but wanted to capture this in case anyone else found this post.

I ran into a similar problem where the ivy.xml file was modified and the configuration information stripped way. Turns out the problem was that I had a period in the configuration description. Changing from "Java 1.7" to "Java 17" solved the problem and stopped the file from being modified.

<configurations>
   <conf name="base" description="base dependencies that all configurations rely upon"/>
   <conf name="apilegacy" description="dependencies and publication for the java 15 client" extends="base"/>
   <conf name="api" description="dependencies and publication for the java 17 client" extends="base"/>

ivy.xml is modified in ivy cache

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