Get full name of an artifact in Maven - maven-2

I need to know the complete filename of a specific artifact in Maven. I looked at versions-maven-plugin but it seems to change the pom itself. Is there another way to reach my goal? I want to store the complete artifact name in a property so I can pick it up in Java code.

Normally you have your dependencies and let maven do all the work of retrieving the files from the repository for you.
But you want to use it in your Java code - what Java code?
Are you writing your own mojo that will be doing something during the install phase of your lifecycle?
Then you should be able to access the artifacts that are currently being processed, from there it's not a problem to get the filename.
But maybe you've got just the groupId, artifactId, version and type of an already existing artifact.
With these informations it should be no problem to navigate to your local maven repository, open the directory: groupId/artifactId/version and look what files you've got there. Usually there should be your .pom a .jar, maybe a md5-hashsum and some maven-metadata. If you're not sure which file's the interesting one: take that one with the biggest filesize.

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How to see dependency tree for JARS in IntelliJ using SBT

I am using intelliJ IDEA 2017.2.5 for spark-scala using SBT.
i have many dependencies jars but i wanted to know that which jar is getting downloaded or coming along BECOZ of which jar.
For example i have specified Jar_1 in my build.sbt file. Now when the project is built using SBT, along with Jar_1, multiple jars like jar_1.1, jar_1.2, jar_1.3 also gets downloaded. Now when i click on jar_1.3 or jar_1.2 i don't see the directory or any tree like structure which shows that its a child of Jar_1.
This feature is present in Eclipse. Attaching the image which shows this kind of Hierarchy.
As you can see the jars and also it shows that because of which jars it was downloaded. I need to know that whether such thing is available in IntelliJ if yes how to use it
It's not possible in IntelliJ IDEA for the SBT based projects at the moment, please vote for this feature request.

Maven is using incorrect location for downloading plugin pom

(This question is asked on Maven User mailing list too)
I have recently faced a strange problem, that I cannot even able to judge the cause or source of problem. It will be great if someone can give me some direction:
(The story may be a bit long)
I am using Nexus 1.8.0 as our company's repository manager. I use it as proxy of external repo, and hosting our own repository.
There are many repositories in Nexus. I have one repository group (let's call it PUBLIC) which groups all public repositories, including maven central, codehaus etc.
There is another repository group (let's call it EXT) which we put 3rd party artifacts.
In our project, we used org.codehaus.mojo:native2ascii-maven-plugin.
Due to a bug at that time, instead of using the publicly available org.codehaus.mojo:native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1, I have fixed the bug and deploy it to our EXT repository, and called it org.codehaus.mojo:native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1.1 (i.e. used a new version number 1.0-alpha-1.1 instead of 1.0-alpha-1)
This have been running fine for several years.
However recently a new developer tries to get the code and build, using Maven 2.2.1. Strange things happened: the build failed. By inspecting result of mvn -X clean install, it states that POM of native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1.1 cannot be downloaded from PUBLIC, therefore it will use a default emtpy POM, which cause the build problem.
By inspecting the local repository, I found that only the JAR of native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1.1 was downloaded. I am sure that there is no native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1.1 in PUBLIC repository, and the SHA of the JAR matches with native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1.1 in EXT. It seems that, Maven is capable to download the JAR correctly from EXT repo, but when it tries to download the POM afterwards, Maven mistakenly think that it should be downloaded from PUBLIC. Because PUBLIC do not contains 1.0-alpha-1.1, Maven assume there is no POM.
I have EXT repo defined before PUBLIC in my settings.xml. What even more strange is, I tried to block accessing in Nexus for native2ascii-maven-plugin from PUBLIC. Maven, instead of getting the POM from repository EXT, it get from central directly. At last I add PUBLIC as mirror for central, and Maven can build correctly, because EXT is the the only repo that contains native2ascii-maven-plugin. Maven seems tries to download the POM from every repository else which contains native2ascii-maven-plugin in despite of the version number, except from EXT
I simply cannot understand why this will happen. This have been used for years, and it used to be fine even several weeks before (I have other new developers, who can correctly download the plugin, several weeks ago). May anyone guide me the possible cause of the problem? I have neither changed anything in my repo, nor changed version of Maven. Why Maven's "download" behavior suddenly changed?
It's hard to say.
First my theory on why it no longer works. I am guessing this "worked for years" because at one time it worked, and afterwards everything was in your local repository (<home>/.m2/repository). Later, something broke, but you never noticed because you had everything local. The new developer did not have a populated local repository so when they built for the first time, they had failures.
Now my suggestion which may not work out for you. When using Nexus, I think its best to create a single "group" repository that links in all other repositories, and configure the group to order the priority of the linked repositories. So for you, in the group, you would list EXT first, then PUBLIC. Your POMs and/or settings would reference only the group repository. This may just duplicate what you are already doing through other means, but at least it is moving the ordering rules up into Nexus. I would rename your local repository (so you can revert back if necessary) and try re-building to see if everything resolves correctly.
You might want to consider a continuous build tool like Hudson that periodically deletes its own local repository so you can catch issues like this sooner.
At last I managed to find out the "cause" of the problem. It is due to my fault, combined with still-unknown behavior of Maven. I add this as an answer to ease future reference for other people.
They key problem is that I missed plugin version for this specific project (I did put corresponding pluginManagement for other projects, and other plugins for this project... I wonder how come I made this mistake this time)
The way to reproduce the problem:
A separate repository to store the plugin (in my case, org.codehaus.mojo:native2ascii-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-1.1)
In project POM, add plugin, without version. For example,
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>native2ascii-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<plugin>
</plugins>
in settings.xml, avoid defining mirrors (i.e. the settings.xml contains list of repositories and pluginRepositories only)
With such setup, first purge the local repository. Then build the project. After build, inspect the directory in local repository for that plugin (in my case .m2\repository\org\codehaus\mojo\native2ascii-maven-plugin\1.0-alpha-1.1), you will find only the JAR presents, without corresponding POM. (Caused by Maven successfully get the plugin JAR corresponding to the pluginRepositories in settings.xml, but trying to get the POM from a weird location)
With the same setup, put the version in project POM, clean up the local repo, and build again. Everything is fine now.
The reason for work fine even for a recently clean CI environment, is probably due to other "correct" project made the plugin downloaded correctly, which can be used by this "incorrect" project. A periodic purge in local repository in CI won't necessary help much on this too because for that many projects, the chance is always very high for other "correct" project build earlier than that "incorrect" project.
The reason behind such behavior of Maven is still unknown, but at least in a "correct" POM (with plugin version correctly declared), Maven works fine. I will raise this as a issue for Maven though.
I'd start off by agreeing with SingleShot in that Continuous Integration - even a simple smoke test where you simply compile and run unit tests on the trunk - would have prevented you getting into the situation of assuming that the because the build works on one machine, it does not work on the other.
This have been running fine for several years.
That's the kicker with Maven repositories - all you need to do is download it once succesfully, and you'll be forever good to go. Just because it's been working successfully from your local repository doesn't mean it was working.
It is fine several months ago (coz I have migrated our CI server and I have a clean env to build, and everything is fine).
Interesting. So my theory would be then to go and make sure the new developer is set up correctly - that the settings.xml file is in place and is being read (I've had instances that the settings.xml is THERE, but in the wrong place!). It's a simple one, but Maven does not fail if there's no settings.xml, it just uses a default that may have you seeing ghosts.
You mentioned that you use maven 2.2.1 and I can only ask you to doublecheck, we had some strange behavior concerning downloading jars from internal repo that was caused by OSX Lion update that comes with maven3. Our fix was to redeploy affected project.

Mapping from one repository type to another, does it work?

I've been going through all the scenarios, digging around the web, and have yet to find an answer to this. Is it possible for Artifactory to map from one repository layout to another? This is my attempt so far...
In our business we currently have an IVY repository for which we deploy built artifacts. One such artifact is stored at the following path, with the following IVY file:
http://someserver:8080/com.abc.common_library/common_library_to/4.0.0.4-1/jar/common_library_to.jar
http://someserver:8080/com.abc.common_library/common_library_to/4.0.0.4-1/ivy/ivy.xml
For the IVY layouts I've configured the following:
[orgPath]/[module]/baseRev/[type]/([orgPath].)module(-[classifier]).[ext]
[orgPath]/[module]/baseRev/[type]/ivy(-[fileItegRev])(-[classifier]).xml
Now we want to expose this within Artifactory for our maven2 projects to consume. So I configure a new repository, setting the url, etc, and under advanced settings, I set the 'Repository Layout' to be maven-2-default and 'Remote Layout Mapping' to be the modified ivy-default. On making these changes I see the following message appear:
Not all tokens can be mapped between the source and the target layout, which may cause path translation not to work as expected.
I test and save the new repository and all appears happy. I can browse the newly configured repository and view its contents, including the above mentioned artifact. I then generate the maven settings from the home screen, ensure that the correct repositories are selected that include the newly configured one, and apply this to Eclipse.
Having done all of this, I now open the pom file within my Eclipse project and create a new dependency. I specify the following configuration:
Group Id: com.abc.common_library
Artifact Id: common_library_to
Version: 4.0.0.4-1
Type: jar
Scope: compile
Eclipse now attempts to resolve the dependency but gives the following error:
Missing artifact com.abc.common_library:common_library_to:jar:4.0.0.4-1:compile
Am I missing something here? This is quite an important step for us to be able to do. Any feedback will be most appreciated.
See Yoav's response here:
http://forums.jfrog.org/Mapping-from-one-repository-type-to-another-does-it-work-td6807726.html

Publishing POMs via Maven and inserting build version info

I'm building Maven projects via TeamCity/Git and trying to insert the TeamCity build numbers in the pom.xml that gets published to my repository upon a successful build. Unfortunately I can't determine how to publish a pom.xml with the substitutions inserted.
My pom.xml contains info like:
<version>${build.number}</version>
where build.number is provided by TeamCity. That all builds ok, and if (say) build.number = 0.1, then the deployment is a pom.xml to a directory with 0.1. All well and good.
However, the pom.xml that is deployed is the pom.xml without the substitutions made. i.e. Maven is running with a pom.xml with appropriate substitutions, but deploys the initial version and so I get
<version>${build.number}</version>
in the final pom.xml. How can I get the build version number in the pom.xml ?
I wouldn't use this approach because it makes building a project checked out from the SCM not possible without providing the build.number property. I don't think that this is a good thing. Maybe I'm missing something though.
Actually, I don't get what you are trying to achieve exactly (why don't you write the build number in the manifest for example). But, according to the Maven Features on the Teamcity website:
By default, it also keeps TeamCity build number in sync with the Maven version number (...).
Couldn't that be helpful? There is another thread about this here.
Try to use generateReleasePoms property of maven-realease-plugin, maybe that helps a little.

Maven repository configurations

I've asked a similar question in which part of this was addressed, but I'd like to expand in more detail.
When configuring maven to look at internal repositories, is it best to put that information in the project pom or in a user's settings.xml? An explanation on why would be really helpful here.
thanks,
Jeff
You should always try to make the maven project so that it compiles from a clean checkout from source control in your local environment; without a settings.xml. In my opinion this means that you place any overrides to sensible default values in the user's settings.xml file. But the pom should contain sensible values that will work for everyone.
I encourage you to put the repository definition in the POM, this way any developer just grab a copy of the code and run Maven to get it compiled, without having to change things in his settings file.
I find the setting.xml file useful just for hacking Maven's behaviour in special situations, for example when one repository is not accessible due to a firewall and you need to use a mirror. But that's my personal opinion. Maven documentation gives you more freedom:
The settings element in the
settings.xml file contains elements
used to define values which configure
Maven execution in various ways, like
the pom.xml, but should not be bundled
to any specific project, or
distributed to an audience. These
include values such as the local
repository location, alternate remote
repository servers, and authentication
information.
If you have a local repository which is used in every single project you may add that at the settings.xml, just be sure that configuration is well documented, in my current project it's not and new developers struggle at the beginning when they try to compile something.
We use the user's settings.xml and include info in the README about what possible other repos may be needed.
In theory a given group-artifact-version is the same no matter which repo it comes from. It works pretty well for us. If you find yourself with two different assets that have the same group-artifact-version identifier, then that indicates you're doing something really bad.