How do I publish a fat JAR (JAR with dependencies) using sbt and sbt-release?

Question

I need to build a single jar, including dependencies, for one of my sub-projects so that it can be used as a javaagent.

I have a multi-module sbt project and this particular module is the lowest level one (it's also pure Java).

Can I (e.g. with sbt-onejar, sbt-proguard or sbt assembly) override how the lowest level module is packaged?

It looks like these tools are really designed to be a post-publish step, but I really need a (replacement or additional) published artefact to include the dependencies (but only for this one module).

UPDATE: Publishing for sbt-assembly are instructions for a single project, and doesn't easily translate into multi-project.

Answer 1

Publishing for sbt-assembly are instructions for a single project, and doesn't easily translate into multi-project.

People have been publishing fat JAR using sbt-assembly & sbt-release without issues. Here's a blog article from 2011: Publishing fat jar created by sbt-assembly. It boils down to adding addArtifact(Artifact(projectName, "assembly"), sbtassembly.AssemblyKeys.assembly) to your build.sbt (note that the blog is a little out of date AssemblyKeys is now a member of sbtassembly directly).

For sbt 0.13 and above, I prefer to use build.sbt for multi-projects too, so I'd write it like:

import AssemblyKeys._

lazy val commonSettings = Seq(
  version := "0.1-SNAPSHOT",
  organization := "com.example",
  scalaVersion := "2.10.1"
)

val app = (project in file("app")).
  settings(commonSettings: _*).
  settings(assemblySettings: _*).
  settings(
    artifact in (Compile, assembly) ~= { art =>
      art.copy(`classifier` = Some("assembly"))
    }
  ).
  settings(addArtifact(artifact in (Compile, assembly), assembly).settings: _*)

See Defining custom artifacts:

addArtifact returns a sequence of settings (wrapped in a SettingsDefinition). In a full build configuration, usage looks like:

...
lazy val proj = Project(...)
  .settings( addArtifact(...).settings : _* )
...