Yes, that helps! Thank you both. Expect PR. On Tue, Sep 27, 2022, at 10:55, Tamás Cservenák wrote: > Howdy Mathias, > > well, first to clear up: maven-resolver does NOT support operations like > "resolve me this artifact HERE". The "local repository" is coupled with it, > and resolution of artifacts always happens from remote to local repository, > and then the result handles you the java.io.File of the resulting operation. > > What you can do, is to modify the local repository for example, but then > you have to be aware that in that case you start with "tabula rasa", that > repository will be empty (like when you "nuke" your local repository). > > Resolver sadly does not support "resolve into memory" either, so all you > can do today is to create a temporary local repository and resolve there, > process the file(s) resolved, and finally nuke the temporary local > repository. > > This is exactly what happens in m-assembly-p (except it uses deprecated > maven-artifact-transfer (MAT) to support org.sonatype/org.eclipse resolver, > something you don't need, as maven 3.0 is NOT supported anymore by > m-deploy-p). > > MAT does this to "redirect" local repo: > https://github.com/apache/maven-artifact-transfer/blob/master/maven-3.1.x/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/transfer/repository/internal/Maven31RepositoryManager.java#L106-L119 > > But as Laeubi wrote, ForwardingSession will do as well. > > HTH > T > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:34 AM Mathias de Riese <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> if it exists on the remote repo, I would like to retrieve the POM of the >> current project in order to compare it with a local version. >> >> As answered yesterday to a question of Christoph Läubrich, the right entry >> point for this seems to be org.eclipse.aether.RepositorySystem. However, it >> only offers `resolveArtifact()` which does not let me specify the path and >> might return the POM from the local repository... >> >> If I dig deeper I find >> org.eclipse.aether.spi.connector.RepositoryConnector which might do the >> job. However, it is part of the SPI and not the API. >> >> What would be the correct way to retrieve a artifact (or specifically a >> POM) to a temporary file or into memory? >> >> What am I trying to do? Implementing >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MDEPLOY-118. By the way: I am still >> patiently waiting for an answer to my previous question, whether you would >> be interested in a pull request for that issue. >> >> Regards, >> Mathias >> >>
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