Support mill init from an existing Maven project (1500USD Bounty)

[lihaoyi]

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From the maintainer Li Haoyi: I'm putting a 1500USD bounty on this issue, payable by bank transfer on a merged PR implementing this.

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We should be able to run ./mill init to do a best effort conversion of an existing Maven project to Mill:

• Code-generate a build.mill containing a MavenModulefor the root pom.xml, the package.mill for any subfolder pom.xmls
• Convert the main and test dependencies on third-party libraries to ivyDeps
• Convert inter-subproject dependencies to moduleDeps
• Set any necessary javacOptions
• Implement PublishModule with relevant metadata
• Support POM inheritance, dependency management, etc.

Such a conversion will never be 100%, but if we can automate 80% of the conversion that will already be a huge help for people migrating to Mill or even just trying it out

Some prior art that can be used as reference:

• Gradle's Maven Importer https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_init_plugin.html#sec:pom_maven_conversion
• SBT's POM Reader Plugin https://github.com/sbt/sbt-pom-reader

[arturaz]

Is there any infrastructure for this already? For example, does mill init entry point exists?

[lihaoyi]

@arturaz mill init already exists, and uses giter8 to initialize a repo based on some github URL:

mill/main/src/mill/main/MainModule.scala

Line 403 in 7732b0f

def init(evaluator: Evaluator, args: String*): Command[Unit] = Target.command {

It should be pretty easy to add logic to check if there's an existing pom.xml in the project root and initialize based on that instead

[arturaz]

I'll try to implement this :)

[lihaoyi]

@arturaz go for it!

[llvee]

@arturaz Is this completed? If not do you mind if I give this a try 24 hours from now?

[arturaz]

I am working on it right now (fell ill with COVID after starting it). Could you give me a couple of days to finish it? 🙂

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[llvee]

@arturaz Would you like some help with completing it?

[arturaz]

@arturaz Would you like some help with completing it?

I'm not sure how that'd work, at least right now, but I will keep that in mind!

[llvee]

@arturaz Bounty percentages seem like a reasonable option if you're interested in receiving help & sharing some bounty percentage.

[arturaz]

Hey @llvee.

I think you should take over this. I've pushed what I've done to arturaz@3bcf834 , feel free to use any or none of it.

I've hit a bump while implementing BOM file support and thinking on how to translate that to mill when Maven allows property references to be used in any part of the artifact.

And then life hit me and now it seems I won't have time for at least 3 weeks.

I've used these repos as the target for conversion:

• https://github.com/redis/lettuce
• https://github.com/redisson/redisson

Cheers!