[FIXED] Maven is downloading jars of its dependency

Issue

I have a pom file that has a single dependency. I want maven to download the dependency and wrap it in a new jar. However, when I run mvn clean package, it looks for the dependency, finds the dependency, and then looks at it's pom file and attempts to download all dependency of that dependency. How do I tell maven to not look at that dependencies' pom file and just download it?

pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0

    http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.eddie.app</groupId>
    <artifactId>app-wrapper</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>eddie</id>
            <url>https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>eddie-snapshots</id>
            <url>https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>central</id>
            <name>Maven Repository Switchboard</name>
            <layout>default</layout>
            <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <build>
        <plugins>
         <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <mainClass>com.nxtech.batch.Processor</mainClass>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>make-assembly</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.5.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <goals>install</goals>
                    <preparationGoals>install</preparationGoals>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.eddie.myApp</groupId>
            <artifactId>myAwesomeReusableApp</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <distributionManagement>
        <repository>
            <id>eddie</id>
            <url>https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/30591404/packages/maven</url>
        </repository>
        <snapshotRepository>
            <id>eddie-snapshots</id>
            <url>https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven</url>
        </snapshotRepository>
    </distributionManagement>

</project>

Error that gets generated:

Here is the error that gets generated:

$ mvn clean package
Apache Maven 3.8.3 (ff8e977a158738155dc465c6a97ffaf31982d739)
Maven home: C:\apache-maven-3.8.3
Java version: 1.8.0_292, vendor: Red Hat, Inc., runtime: C:\java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292-2.b10.dev.redhat.windows.x86_64\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
[INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] -----------------< com.eddie.app:app-wrapper >-----------------
[INFO] Building app-wrapper 1.0.0
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/3.2.0/maven-dependency-plugin-3.2.0.pom
[INFO] Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/3.2.0/maven-dependency-plugin-3.2.0.pom (18 kB at 35 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-plugins/34/maven-plugins-34.pom
[INFO] Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-plugins/34/maven-plugins-34.pom (11 kB at 114 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/3.2.0/maven-dependency-plugin-3.2.0.jar
[INFO] Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/3.2.0/maven-dependency-plugin-3.2.0.jar (205 kB at 888 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from eddie: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven/com/ivans/connect/Connect/8.6.4g-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading from eddie-snapshots: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven/com/ivans/connect/Connect/8.6.4g-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloaded from eddie-snapshots: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven/com/ivans/connect/Connect/8.6.4g-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml (954 B at 1.5 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-api/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading from eddie-snapshots: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven/io/grpc/grpc-api/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading from eddie: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven/io/grpc/grpc-api/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloaded from central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/grpc/grpc-api/maven-metadata.xml (2.1 kB at 7.2 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from eddie: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading from eddie-snapshots: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] Downloaded from central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_annotations/maven-metadata.xml (1.6 kB at 20 kB/s)
[INFO] Downloading from eddie: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven/org/apache/commons/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient/3.1.0/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient-3.1.0.pom
[INFO] Downloading from eddie-snapshots: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven/org/apache/commons/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient/3.1.0/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient-3.1.0.pom
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient/3.1.0/com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient-3.1.0.pom
[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.commons:com.springsource.org.apache.commons.httpclient:jar:3.1.0 is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The artifact javax.xml:jaxrpc:jar:1.1 has been relocated to javax.xml:jaxrpc-api:jar:1.1
[INFO] Downloading from eddie: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-parent/1.2.1.RELEASE/spring-boot-starter-parent-1.2.1.RELEASE.jar
[INFO] Downloading from eddie-snapshots: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32301501/packages/maven/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-parent/1.2.1.RELEASE/spring-boot-starter-parent-1.2.1.RELEASE.jar
[INFO] Downloading from central: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-parent/1.2.1.RELEASE/spring-boot-starter-parent-1.2.1.RELEASE.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  4.727 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2022-01-13T09:48:53-05:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project com.eddie.app:app-wrapper Could not resolve dependencies for project com.eddie.app:app-wrapper:jar:1.0.0: Could not find artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:jar:1.2.1.RELEASE in eddie (https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven) -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal on project test-dl-carrier: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.ivans.download:test-dl-carrier:jar:1.1.3: Could not find artifact org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-parent:jar:1.2.1.RELEASE in eddie (https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22513588/packages/maven)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.getDependencies (LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:269)
    at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleDependencyResolver.resolveProjectDependencies (LifecycleDependencyResolver.java:147)

Solution

I converted the pom file to a build.gradle file and was successfully able to create a wrapper jar file.

plugins {
    id 'java'
    id 'maven-publish'
}

repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    maven {
        url = uri('https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22516918/packages/maven')
        name "GitLab"
        credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials) {
            if (System.getenv('CI_JOB_TOKEN')) {
                name = "Job-Token"
                value = System.getenv('CI_JOB_TOKEN')
              } else {
                 name = 'Private-Token'
                 value = gitLabPrivateToken
              }
        }
        authentication {
            header(HttpHeaderAuthentication)
        }
    }

    maven {
        url = uri('https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32306969/packages/maven')
        name "GitLab-snapshots"
        credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials) {
            if (System.getenv('CI_JOB_TOKEN')) {
                name = "Job-Token"
                value = System.getenv('CI_JOB_TOKEN')
              } else {
                 name = 'Private-Token'
                 value = gitLabPrivateToken
              }
        }
        authentication {
            header(HttpHeaderAuthentication)
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.eddie.myApp:myAwesomeReusableApp:1.0.0'
}

jar {
    from(configurations.compileClasspath.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) }) {
        exclude "META-INF/*.SF"
        exclude "META-INF/*.DSA"
        exclude "META-INF/*.RSA"
    }

    manifest {
        attributes 'Built-By': System.getProperty('user.name'),
                'Built-Date': new Date(),
                'Built-JDK': System.getProperty('java.version'),
                'Main-Class': 'com.eddie.myApp.Processor'
    }
}

publishing {
    publications {
        maven(MavenPublication) {
            from(components.java)
        }
    }
    repositories {
        maven {
            credentials(HttpHeaderCredentials) {
                if (System.getenv('CI_JOB_TOKEN')) {
                name = "Job-Token"
                value = System.getenv('CI_JOB_TOKEN')
              } else {
                 name = 'Private-Token'
                 value = gitLabPrivateToken
              }
            }
            if(project.version.endsWith('-SNAPSHOT')) {
                url "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/32306969/packages/maven"
            } else {
                url "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/22516969/packages/maven"
            }
            authentication {
                header(HttpHeaderAuthentication)
            }
        }
    }
}

}

There is probably a solution with maven, but I discovered that Gradle was easier to implement for me.

Answered By - Eddie Greathouse
Answer Checked By - Marilyn (JavaFixing Volunteer)