Tired of Googling for that annoying SBT import expression to pull in your favorite library? Here's a tiny CLI tool that pulls the SBT import expression for your favorite libraries off Scaladex right into your terminal, ready to be copy pasted into build.sbt.

import-this 1.0
Usage: import-this query

query  the package to search for

> ./import-this sttp
found 20 options:
> softwaremill/sttp
  softwaremill/tapir
  ocadotechnology/sttp-oauth2
  softwaremill/sttp-model
  fullfacing/keycloak4s
  ragb/sttp-play-ws
  circe/circe
  stringbean/sttp-scribe
  typelevel/cats-effect
  allantl/jira4s
  lihaoyi/requests-scala
  endpoints4s/endpoints4s
  bartholomews/fsclient
  bot4s/telegram
  janstenpickle/trace4cats
  nryanov/consul4s
  softwaremill/sttp-shared
  softwaremill/sttp-client
  fullfacing/sttp-akka-monix
  softwaremill/tapir-sttp-client
fetching your import statement...
Link: http://index.scala-lang.org/softwaremill/sttp/core/3.1.1?target=_3.0.0-M3
libraryDependencies += "com.softwaremill.sttp.client3" %% "core" % "3.1.1"

(TODO: Publish some binaries)

1. sbt nativeImageRunAgent foo

   • A transitive dependency, jline, loads resources from the classpath at runtime to configure terminal output. This additional step allows the GraalVM native image agent to pick up the resource file paths (amongst other things) and create the configuration objects to be passed to the native image tool.

2. sbt nativeImage

   • This actually builds the native image. sbt-native-image automatically pulls in GraalVM and installs the native image extension.

• https://github.com/jhy/jsoup
• https://github.com/scalameta/sbt-native-image
• https://github.com/kovszilard/smenu

• Shouldn't this be better off as an IDE extension/SBT Plugin?
  • Yes.
• ...and?
  • This is really a toy project for me to 1) learn and use Cats (more specifically Cats-Effects), and 2) try out GraalVM's native image tool.
• ...are you scraping the Scaladex HTML output?
  • oops. (and so yes, this is likely very fragile. Would be really nice if there's an open API!)
• How about also searching Maven central/Bintray/Sonatype for Java libraries?
  • Good idea!