Keep Ivy from including test dependencies - ivy

Question

Consider an ivy.xml like the following:
<ivy-module version="2.0">
<info organisation="com.foo" module="FooBar" />
<dependencies>
<dependency org="net.sf.ehcache" name="ehcache-core" rev="2.2.0" />
<!--...-->
</dependencies>
</info>
</ivy-module>
When I run Ivy, it fetches all dependencies for EHCache, even testing dependencies. Specifically, it tries to pull in Hibernate 3.5.1 (which, in the POM file, is listed as a "test" dependency).
How do I prevent Ivy from including test dependencies? I could list it as an excluded dependency, but I don't want to have to do this for every test dependency. I'm new to Ivy and used to the way Maven does things. I was reading about configurations but I don't understand how this aspect of Maven's "scope" maps to "configurations."

Answer 1

You need to define the configuration of the dependency like:
<dependency org="net.sf.ehcache" name="ehcache-core" rev="2.2.0" conf="compile"/>
If you omit conf it is assumed, that you meant conf ="*", which will download all configurations for that dependency.
Here is a simple Example:
<configurations>
<conf name="test" visibility="public" />
<conf name="compile" visibility="public" />
</configurations>
<publications>
<artifact name="${project.name}" type="jar" conf="compile" ext="jar"/>
<artifact name="${project.name}-test" type="jar" conf="test" ext="jar"/>
</publications>
<dependencies>
<!-- COMPILE -->
<dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="1.2.14" conf="compile->*"/>
<dependency org="apache" name="commons-net" rev="2.0" conf="compile->*"/>
<dependency org="itext" name="itext" rev="1.4.6" conf="compile->*"/>
<dependency org="jsch" name="jsch" rev="0.1.29" conf="test->*"/>
<!-- TEST -->
</dependencies>
In this example jsch will be included in the test and the compile configuration.
If you resolve this dependency later with conf ="compile" you will get all dependencies EXCEPT jsch.
If you resolve this dependency with conf ="test" you will get jsch only.
And if test would extend compile, you would get all jars.
<configurations>
<conf name="test" visibility="public" extends="compile" />
<conf name="compile" visibility="public" />
</configurations>