Add ignore rules for versioning in rules.xml to handle pre-release an…

…d non-standard versions

rules.xml

@@ -2,9 +2,22 @@
     xmlns="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/rule/2.0.0 https://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/xsd/rule-2.0.0.xsd">
+
+    <!-- General ignore rules -->
     <ignoreVersions>
         <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-alpha.*</ignoreVersion>
         <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-beta.*</ignoreVersion>
         <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*-RC.*</ignoreVersion>
     </ignoreVersions>
+
+    <!-- Specific rule for com.graphql-java:graphql-java to ignore non-standard versions -->
+    <rules>
+        <rule groupId="com.graphql-java" artifactId="graphql-java" comparisonMethod="maven">
+            <ignoreVersions>
+                <!-- Exclude versions that are not in MAJOR.MINOR or MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format -->
+                <ignoreVersion type="regex">.*[^0-9.]+.*</ignoreVersion>
+                <ignoreVersion type="regex">^\d+\.\d+\.\d+\..*$</ignoreVersion> <!-- Excludes versions with more than 3 numeric segments -->
+            </ignoreVersions>
+        </rule>
+    </rules>
 </ruleset>