Javaagent jar without version name in the file name

[itsmaneesh]

Hi,
Is there a way to get javaagent jar without a version number associated with it.?
For e.g.: Get opentelemetry-javaagent.jar instead as opentelemetry-javaagent-1.26.0.jar

So that, we avoid changes to our code whenever there is a new one version of javaagent is released?

Rationale for this use case:
I have a lib called my-lib that gets the opentelemetry-javaagent as gradle runtimeOnly dependency.
Also have a service my-service that use helm chart has been updated to have the below configuration:

• Use my-lib as implementation dependency so when I deploy the my-service service then opentelemetry-javaagent-1.26.0.jar gets added to the /app/libs directory
• Use generic helm chart generic-chart (used by many services in our org) that configures the javaagent path using JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS env variable and other env variables include OTEL specfic variables as well.
  fpr e.g.: JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-javaagent:/app/libs/opentelemetry-javaagent-1.26.0.jar

In this above scenario, the javaagent version is tightly coupled between the my-lib release version and generic-chart release version.
If I want to use the latest version of opentelemetry javaagent then I have to upgrade both my-lib to use the latest version of opentelemetry javaagent in dependencies and also update the generic-chart to use the latest version jar name in the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS and then release a breaking change for both of them.
i.e: If any service use the latest version of my-lib (that has 1.26.0 javaagent) then they HAVE to use latest version of generic-chart that adds opentelemetry-javaagent-1.26.0.jar as JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS, otherwise if service will not start due to javaagent jar file missing.

To avoid such breaking changes, I would like to have my-lib to get the opentelemetry-javaagent.jar (without version number in thr file name) and use JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-javaagent:/app/libs/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar
So, can you please advice on getting javaagent jar without version number in the file name?

Thanks.

[trask]

Does https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/releases/download/v1.29.0/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar work for you?

[itsmaneesh]

@trask Thank you for the above option of downloading the jar from the releases page. But, I am looking for an option of having this jar (without version number in the file name) as gradle dependency in my lib. ? Is there a way to do so?

[trask]

does this help? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10370422/gradle-getting-the-latest-release-version-of-a-dependency