maven-semver

A semantic version parser for maven, based on the API of npm's semver.

Additional functionality, beyond what is documented in npm's, is available:

compareRanges

This facilitates sorting version ranges, which may help with generating consistent/normalised data, and may help work around bugs in Maven's version parser. It compares as follows (see #19):

• The operators are interpreted as "just outside", so (1,2] > [1,2]. (Read (1 as [1.000001?)
• Singular versions are sorted before ranges: [2] < [2,3).
• The minimum/singular version is more important than the maximum. [2] > [1,3)
• Open-ended ranges are further out than any named version: (,2) < (0.0.1,2), [1,3) < [1,).

Further reading

• https://octopus.com/blog/maven-versioning-explained
• https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVENOLD/Versioning
• https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#version-order-testing

License

License: Apache License, Version 2.0