autonomousapps/dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin

The reason task should list the classes which depend on a dependency

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#643 opened on Apr 18, 2022

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The below is a shorted snippet of the reason task

gw category-a:subproject:reason --id :category-b:subproject

Source: main
------------
* Uses class com.company.my.special.class (implies implementation).

While knowing which class is used is a good start, knowing where it is used is key to verify/remove a dependency.

Describe the solution you'd like Output in line with the following would be nice to have:

gw category-a:subproject:reason --id :category-b:subproject

Source: main
------------
* Uses class com.company.my.special.class (implies implementation), listing first X occurrences:
  - FQClass1
  - FQClass2

This information is available in the synthetic-project.json and other intermediates.

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Research direction
Locate the synthetic project.json file in the build output and examine its structure to find how class dependencies are listed. Then modify the reason task to iterate over the dependency graph and output the first few class names.
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kotlinjava
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devtoolsbuild system
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