Colm O hEigeartaigh created SENTRY-967:
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Summary: Use the Maven Dependency Plugin to download artifacts for
the Sqoop tests
Key: SENTRY-967
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-967
Project: Sentry
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Test
Reporter: Colm O hEigeartaigh
Priority: Trivial
Fix For: 1.7.0
Currently the Maven antrun plugin is used to download a copy of Tomcat (6) and
the Sqoop server to a "thirdparty" directory in the
"sentry-tests/sentry-tests-sqoop" directory.
However there are a number of problems with this approach:
a) You are not downloading to a temporary directory (I guess to save having to
download the artifacts on every build). This is not good practice, as a "mvn
clean" doesn't actually clean this directory
b) If the download is corrupted, the corrupted artifact will stay in
"thirdparty", as the directory is not removed as part of the build process.
c) The antrun/bash approach means that bash must be installed on the machine,
which might be problematic (e.g. on windows)
A better approach is to use the Maven dependency plugin to download the
artifacts and copy them to a directory in the "target" directory of the tests.
The artifacts get downloaded to the local maven repository, so after the first
download, the build won't have to redownload anything. It should work on every
platform as well.
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