[hono-dev] Hono Client dependencies

[Avgustin Marinov <a.marinov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have a question regarding Hono Client dependencies.

As far as I understand, the Hono Client consists of two jars - hono-core and hono-client. These are needed in order a Hono Adapter or backend app to communicate with Hono. However,  these jars bring a dependency on jjwt, which is probably reasonable. But they also bring dependencies on the springframework core and cache, which I don't think is reasonable if you try to minimize dependencies. I  mean springframework use is sporadic and could be easily avoided.

So my question is - do you try to minimize dependencies for the Hono Client. I mean when a client try to integrate Hono Client in its solution any additional dependency could be a problem (overhead, compatibility issues ...). If you target dependencies minimization - have you decided what dependency set to stick to?

PS: regarding usability - it could be good idea to make hono-core and hono-client OSGi compatible (e.g. to add OSGi import/export) in order to be easily deployed on OSGi frameworks. For instance vertx -core that you use under the hood is build like that.

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Avgustin Marinov

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