Where to place utility code used in several plugins?

[Ullrich Hafner]

I have some classes that I would like to use in several of my Jenkins plugins. Some classes are depending on Jenkins core, some classes only use JRE dependencies. Up to now I duplicated these classes by copying them into the corresponding plugins -  but this is ugly and error prone.

What is the preferred way of handling theses classes? Should I create two new modules (util and plugin-utill) that will host theses classes? Or is this just overkill? Or should I better host them in my GitHub account and publish them to Maven central (or any other hosting service) on my own?  

Legend:

- blue: my existing plugins

- yellow: my existing library (hosted in jenkisci)

- orange: my planned libraries (plugin-util has Jenkins dependency, util not)

 

[Jesse Glick]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:57 PM Ullrich Hafner
<ullrich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the preferred way of handling theses classes? Should I create two new modules (util and plugin-utill) that will host theses classes?

Keep it simple. The latter should be a plugin
(`<packaging>hpi</packaging>`), and both should be hosted in
@jenkinsci.

[Oleg Nenashev]

+1 for a "just plugin"