Support autoreplace for sbt manager

[rarkins]

Discussed in https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions/25637

^{Originally posted by **gaeljw** November 7, 2023} ### How are you running Renovate? Mend Renovate hosted app on github.com ### If you're self-hosting Renovate, tell us what version of Renovate you run. _No response_ ### If you're self-hosting Renovate, select which platform you are using. None ### Was this something which used to work for you, and then stopped? I never saw this working ### Wanted end result. Given the following repository: https://github.com/gaeljw/renovate-replacement-play, I'd like to get a PR opened using the "replacement" feature because one of my dependencies got its name changed. - `"com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin"` is renamed to `"org.playframework" % "sbt-plugin"` ### What you tried so far. I've added the following replacement rules to my `renovate.json` config: ```json "packageRules": [ { "matchPackageNames": [ "com.typesafe.play:sbt-plugin" ], "replacementName": "org.playframework:sbt-plugin", "replacementVersion": "3.0.0" } ] ``` But so far, I don't get any replacement PR opened. I only get new versions on the "old" naming, I'd like to get additional PRs with the new name and version 3.0.0. ### Relevant debug logs

Logs

``` "sbt": [ { "deps": [ { "datasource": "sbt-plugin", "depName": "com.typesafe.play:sbt-plugin", "packageName": "com.typesafe.play:sbt-plugin", "currentValue": "2.9.0", "depType": "plugin", "registryUrls": [ "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2", "https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/sbt-plugin-releases" ], "updates": [ { "updateType": "replacement", "newName": "org.playframework:sbt-plugin", "newValue": "3.0.0", "branchName": "renovate/com.typesafe.play-sbt-plugin-replacement" } ], "versioning": "ivy", "warnings": [], "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/playframework/playframework", "registryUrl": "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2", "dependencyUrl": "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/typesafe/play/sbt-plugin", "currentVersion": "2.9.0", "fixedVersion": "2.9.0" } ], "packageFile": "project/plugins.sbt" } ] } ... INFO: Cannot find replaceString in current file content. Was it already updated? (branch="renovate/com.typesafe.play-sbt-plugin-replacement") { "packageFile": "project/plugins.sbt" "depName": "com.typesafe.play:sbt-plugin" "existingContent": "\naddSbtPlugin(\"com.typesafe.play\" % \"sbt-plugin\" % \"2.9.0\")\n" "replaceString": "2.9.0" } DEBUG: No content changed (branch="renovate/com.typesafe.play-sbt-plugin-replacement") { "packageFile": "project/plugins.sbt" "depName": "com.typesafe.play:sbt-plugin" } ```

I guess the error `Cannot find replaceString in current file content` is relevant but I'm not sure how to fix it.

[gaeljw]

Happy to give a try at implementing this if someone can guide me in the right direction.

[rarkins]

In the meantime, the current docs should be updated to include SBT in the unsupported list: https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#replacementname

[rarkins]

I searched the code for replacementName and unfortunately I'm not finding any custom replacements. For example maven is not supported.

We may need to add some maven-awareness to the autoreplace function, e.g. instead of searching for the packageName string in full, we split it into group and package parts and then search for something like groupPart.*?packagePart and then replace them separately if found

[gaeljw]

Indeed, if this is not implemented for any other manager yet, this sounds like a bit of work.

[gaeljw]

Related to https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/issues/14149

[MPV]

Should SBT also be listed here...?

• https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions/24883