hi all, maybe a stupid question, but I’m using

experimental_shell_command

to execute maven to build a jar, works perfectly. then, that jar needs to go inside of a

pex_binary

(because I then need my python code to upload it somewhere on demand). pants says I should use a

resource

for that. But the

resource

target only accepts source files. Is there any way I can make the outputs of a previous target into the inputs of the

resources

?

Not today, no (not without a plugin). IMHO this is Pants' most glaring feature deficiency (that we force clients to choose between file/resource at declaration site, and not at consumption site. Therefore for everything we make that could represent a file target ALSO needs to have a resource counterpart). It's something I have a proposal to move us away from, but other than that a plugin is your best bet

thank you very much!

Also, is there any reason why you would be unable to use the Pants JVM support?

the maven build is quite complex and given by the framework

Here's my link from the last thread https://pantsbuild.slack.com/archives/C046T6T9U/p1666710875776059?thread_ts=1666710209.475279&cid=C046T6T9U

awesome, thank you

I am hoping to take a hard look at experimental_shell_command very soon, for exactly this sort of thing