Java 8 Required? about codacy-coverage-reporter

[rtfpessoa]

We recently added rapture as a dependency to abstract the json implementations and it seems to depend on Java 8.
Maybe you can use version 1.0.13 while you cannot migrate to Java 8. Let me know if it works.

[jeremylong]

Thanks, I changed my script to be:

before_install:
  - wget -O ~/codacy-coverage-reporter-assembly.jar https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/com/codacy/codacy-coverage-reporter/1.0.13/codacy-coverage-reporter-1.0.13-assembly.jar 

after_success:
  - java -cp ~/codacy-coverage-reporter-assembly.jar com.codacy.CodacyCoverageReporter -l Java -r build-reporting/target/coverage-reports/jacoco.xml

This works, as long as any new required features don't show up in newer version of the Codacy Coverage Reporter.

As a build plugin author myself I've been very careful to ensure tools work with older versions of Java as people are slow to upgrade. I'm not sure about the sbt space, but in Maven I've used animal-sniffer-maven-plugin to ensure my dependencies don't exceed the minimum Java version I want to support.

Thanks!

[jeremylong]

To correct my statement above - I use animal sniffer to make sure I don't accidentally call a newer API. I use travis-ci running with Java 7 to ensure I don't upgrade a dependency that exceeds my minimum Java level for a plugin.

Regardless, this issue can be closed.

[rtfpessoa]

We need to check if there is something similar to Scala and improve the release process. Thanks for the tip.