Problems with Annotations (and a fix via upgrade to proguard 4.9)

[Igor Passchier]

Hello,

I was using proguard via the maven plugin to obfuscate some of my classes. I wanted to keep classes based on annotations. Although the classes were identified as seeds, they were still obfuscated when done via the maven plugin. When I used exactly the same configuration, but using the latest standalone version of proguard, it was working as expected.

I found out that the maven plugin was still using proguard 4.4, whereas the latest version is 4.9. I modified the pom of the plugin to use the latest version, and that made the plugin behave as expected: all classes and methods selected as seeds where indeed not obfuscated.

I do not know whether it is on purpose that the latest version of proguard is not used, but if not, the patch below will fix this. Note, that I did not only change the version, but also the artifactId.

Regards,

Index: pom.xml
===================================================================
--- pom.xml    (revision 9902)
+++ pom.xml    (working copy)
@@ -30,8 +29,8 @@
 
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.sf.proguard</groupId>
-            <artifactId>proguard</artifactId>
-            <version>4.4</version>
+            <artifactId>proguard-base</artifactId>
+            <version>4.9</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
             <optional>true</optional>
         </dependency>