Hi, is there anything equivalent to the alias target from Pants v1 in Pants v2?

yes, that would be the

target

target: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-target

That is not actually the same. The alias target was inlined and so you could trick a rule into thinking an alias is what it points to. In v2 a target is basically not digestible by any rule in that way: https://v1.pantsbuild.org/build_dictionary.html

ok, so the “closest” thing, then.. depending on what you want to achieve. Thanks for the clarification John. 🙂

Yeah. V1 also has

target

though; so I'm guessing that's no dice.

@refined-hydrogen-47967: What is the envisioned use case?

I was hoping to be able to run

pants package

on an alias for a

deploy_jar

target. With Pants v1 we've set up a directory with aliases for the

jvm_binary

targets for each service we deploy to try and simplify our ci/cd pipeline. Without alias though I think we could probably just move the

deploy_jar

targets to where the aliases are currently.

Ah, in v2 there’s a

[cli.alias]

config section you may use: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-cli#alias

Nice, I think tagging each

deploy_jar

target will achieve what I'm looking for. Thank you!