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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.build.gradle
+
+import org.gradle.api.*
+import org.gradle.api.artifacts.Configuration
+import org.gradle.api.artifacts.ProjectDependency;
+import org.gradle.api.artifacts.maven.Conf2ScopeMapping
+import org.gradle.api.plugins.MavenPlugin
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.*
+import org.gradle.plugins.ide.eclipse.EclipsePlugin
+import org.gradle.plugins.ide.eclipse.model.EclipseClasspath;
+import org.gradle.plugins.ide.idea.IdeaPlugin
+import org.gradle.api.invocation.*
+
+
+/**
+ * Gradle plugin that allows projects to merged together. Primarily developed to
+ * allow Spring to support multiple incompatible versions of third-party
+ * dependencies (for example Hibernate v3 and v4).
+ * <p>
+ * The 'merge' extension should be used to define how projects are merged, for example:
+ * <pre class="code">
+ * configure(subprojects) {
+ *     apply plugin: MergePlugin
+ * }
+ *
+ * project("myproject") {
+ * }
+ *
+ * project("myproject-extra") {
+ *     merge.into = project("myproject")
+ * }
+ * </pre>
+ * <p>
+ * This plugin adds two new configurations:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>merging - Contains the projects being merged into this project<li>
+ * <li>runtimeMerge - Contains all dependencies that are merge projects. These are used
+ * to allow an IDE to reference merge projects.</li>
+ * <ul>
+ *
+ * @author Rob Winch
+ * @author Phillip Webb
+ */
+class MergePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
+
+	private static boolean attachedProjectsEvaluated;
+
+	public void apply(Project project) {
+		project.plugins.apply(MavenPlugin)
+		project.plugins.apply(EclipsePlugin)
+		project.plugins.apply(IdeaPlugin)
+
+		MergeModel model = project.extensions.create("merge", MergeModel)
+		project.configurations.create("merging")
+		Configuration runtimeMerge = project.configurations.create("runtimeMerge")
+
+		// Ensure the IDE can reference merged projects
+		project.eclipse.classpath.plusConfigurations += [runtimeMerge]
+		project.idea.module.scopes.PROVIDED.plus += runtimeMerge
+
+		// Hook to perform the actual merge logic
+		project.afterEvaluate{
+			if(it.merge.into != null) {
+				setup(it)
+			}
+		}
+
+		// Hook to build runtimeMerge dependencies
+		if(!attachedProjectsEvaluated) {
+			project.gradle.projectsEvaluated{
+				postProcessProjects(it)
+			}
+			attachedProjectsEvaluated  = true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void setup(Project project) {
+		project.merge.into.dependencies.add("merging", project)
+		project.dependencies.add("provided", project.merge.into.sourceSets.main.output)
+		project.dependencies.add("runtimeMerge", project.merge.into)
+		setupTaskDependencies(project)
+		setupMaven(project)
+	}
+
+	private void setupTaskDependencies(Project project) {
+		// invoking a task will invoke the task with the same name on 'into' project
+		["sourcesJar", "jar", "javadocJar", "javadoc", "install", "artifactoryPublish"].each {
+			def task = project.tasks.findByPath(it)
+			if(task) {
+				task.enabled = false
+				task.dependsOn(project.merge.into.tasks.findByPath(it))
+			}
+		}
+
+		// update 'into' project artifacts to contain the source artifact contents
+		project.merge.into.sourcesJar.from(project.sourcesJar.source)
+		project.merge.into.jar.from(project.sourceSets.main.output)
+		project.merge.into.javadoc {
+			source += project.javadoc.source
+			classpath += project.javadoc.classpath
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void setupMaven(Project project) {
+		project.configurations.each { configuration ->
+			Conf2ScopeMapping mapping = project.conf2ScopeMappings.getMapping([configuration])
+			if(mapping.scope) {
+				Configuration intoConfiguration = project.merge.into.configurations.create(
+					project.name + "-" + configuration.name)
+				configuration.excludeRules.each {
+					configuration.exclude([
+						(ExcludeRule.GROUP_KEY) : it.group,
+						(ExcludeRule.MODULE_KEY) : it.module])
+				}
+				configuration.dependencies.each {
+					def intoCompile = project.merge.into.configurations.getByName("compile")
+					// Protect against changing a compile scope dependency (SPR-10218)
+					if(!intoCompile.dependencies.contains(it)) {
+						intoConfiguration.dependencies.add(it)
+					}
+				}
+				project.merge.into.install.repositories.mavenInstaller.pom.scopeMappings.addMapping(
+					mapping.priority + 100, intoConfiguration, mapping.scope)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	private postProcessProjects(Gradle gradle) {
+		gradle.allprojects(new Action<Project>() {
+			public void execute(Project project) {
+				project.configurations.getByName("runtime").allDependencies.withType(ProjectDependency).each{
+					Configuration dependsOnMergedFrom = it.dependencyProject.configurations.getByName("merging");
+					dependsOnMergedFrom.dependencies.each{ dep ->
+						project.dependencies.add("runtimeMerge", dep.dependencyProject)
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		});
+	}
+}
+
+class MergeModel {
+	Project into;
+}