flex-sdk-converter-maven-extension 1.1.0 has been officially released. The develop branch of the royale-compiler, royale-typedefs, and royale-asjs repositories now use this new version. It resolves the issue where playerglobal.swc could not be downloaded by Maven.
-- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 3:31 PM Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> wrote: > In order to resolve this issue, I'm starting the release process for > flex-sdk-converter-maven-extension 1.1.0. As release manager, I just > submitted RC 1 to the Flex PMC. If you are a member of the Flex PMC, please > go try it out, and add your +1 vote, if things look okay. > > To build the flex-sdk-converter-maven-extension source release, extract > the .zip file and run `mvn clean install` in the root directory with > pom.xml. > > OPTIONAL: After installing RC1 locally, you can also test that it works > with royale-compiler. Here's what you need to do: > > (Prerequisite: Make sure that you have the FLASHPLAYER_DEBUGGER env var > pointing to a Flash Player projector executable. If you don't have this > executable already, the royale-compiler README explains how you can still > download it from Adobe.) > > 1. In royale-compiler, go into .mvn/extensions.xml and replace the version > number with 1.1.0 > 2. Go into ~/.m2/repository/com/adobe/flash/ and move the "framework" > directory somewhere else temporarily. This lets you put it back later, if > something goes wrong. > 3. In royale-compiler, run `mvn clean install -P option-with-swf`. > > -- > Josh Tynjala > Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> > > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 1:01 PM Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> > wrote: > >> Just replying with the error message you get if you forget `-s >> settings-template.xml` so that it will show up in search. >> >> [ERROR] Extension >> org.apache.flex.utilities.converter:flex-sdk-converter-maven-extension:1.1.0-SNAPSHOT >> or one of its dependencies could not be resolved: Could not find artifact >> org.apache.flex.utilities.converter:flex-sdk-converter-maven-extension:jar:1.1.0-SNAPSHOT >> >> It means that you're missing `-s settings-template.xml`. So you need to >> run `mvn install -s settings-template.xml` instead of just `mvn install`. >> -- >> Josh Tynjala >> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 9:19 AM Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> >> wrote: >> >>> I deployed flex-sdk-converter-extension 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT to Apache >>> snapshots to allow testing of my bugfix. I updated the royale-compiler >>> develop branch to use it, along with playerglobal 32.0 instead of 20.0 >>> because Adobe no longer makes 20.0 available for download. >>> >>> Similar to how it worked in the past, before >>> flex-sdk-converter-extension 1.0 was released, you are now required to tell >>> Maven to use settings-template.xml (but I think only the first time) to >>> find this snapshot when building royale-compiler. >>> >>> mvn clean install -P option-with-swf -s settings-template.xml >>> >>> Using settings-template.xml is temporary. I plan to start the full >>> release process for 1.1.0 as soon as others verify that it's working for >>> them too. So please pull from the develop branch of royale-compiler and try >>> to build using the command above. Thanks! >>> >>> I'll hold off on updating royale-asjs to use 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT and >>> playerglobal 32.0 until Yishay creates the release branch in that repo, so >>> that the release branches remain in sync. >>> >>> -- >>> Josh Tynjala >>> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:24 PM Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I think I want to try publishing flex-sdk-converter-extension >>>> 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT to Apache's Maven snapshots repo. Then, we can use the "-s >>>> settings-template.xml" trick to get our build to use that snapshot version. >>>> This is how we did it with 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT before Chris released the proper >>>> 1.0.0. That'll at least get us unstuck. Later, I'll try to do a proper >>>> release of 1.1.0. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Josh Tynjala >>>> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:23 AM Josh Tynjala < >>>> joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Okay, I rebuilt flex-sdk-converter-extension on my local machine (it's >>>>> in the flex-utilities repo, for anyone interested). If I change the URL >>>>> for >>>>> sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml from http to https, it successfully >>>>> downloads. >>>>> >>>>> So, for some reason, the 301 redirect is not being handled correctly. >>>>> Presumably, something changed on the server. Perhaps it was still serving >>>>> http in the past, and it was forced to https more recently. >>>>> >>>>> I found this explanation about redirects in Java: >>>>> >>>>> > After discussion among Java Networking engineers, it is felt that we >>>>> shouldn't automatically follow redirect from one protocol to another, for >>>>> instance, from http to https and vise versa, doing so may have serious >>>>> security consequences. Thus the fix is to return the server responses for >>>>> redirect. Check response code and Location header field value for redirect >>>>> information. It's the application's responsibility to follow the redirect. >>>>> >>>>> Looks like flex-sdk-converter-extension needs to update this URL and >>>>> get a new release, since the redirect from http to https won't work. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Josh Tynjala >>>>> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:24 AM Josh Tynjala < >>>>> joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I tried changing to playerglobal 32.0, and it is still failing. >>>>>> Interestingly, I see these lower level exceptions in the log when I add >>>>>> the >>>>>> -X option to mvn: >>>>>> >>>>>> Caused by: >>>>>> org.apache.flex.utilities.converter.retrievers.exceptions.RetrieverException: >>>>>> Error parsing 'sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml' >>>>>> Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file. >>>>>> >>>>>> So it's trying to download >>>>>> http://flex.apache.org/installer/sdk-installer-config-4.0.xml (where >>>>>> it will find the URL to playerglobal.swc), and something is going wrong >>>>>> parsing that file. >>>>>> >>>>>> It seems to be valid XML, so maybe it's getting some kind of error >>>>>> document from the web server instead of the proper file. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll keep digging... >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Josh Tynjala >>>>>> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 8:47 AM Josh Tynjala < >>>>>> joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I seem to recall that Adobe stopped making most older versions of >>>>>>> playerglobal.swc available for download from their servers. I think it >>>>>>> might be only version 32.0 that's still available. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We have flash.version set to 20.0 in our pom.xml: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <flash.version>20.0</flash.version> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We might need to change that to 32.0. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Most of us wouldn't notice that the download wasn't available >>>>>>> because we installed playerglobal months/years ago, before Adobe removed >>>>>>> their downloads, and the Maven extension probably doesn't try to >>>>>>> download >>>>>>> it again, if it's already available locally. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm going to try to see if I can mess with my local Maven cache to >>>>>>> trigger this error on my computer. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Josh Tynjala >>>>>>> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 8:35 AM Josh Tynjala < >>>>>>> joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We use some kind of Maven plugin/extension that downloads >>>>>>>> playerglobal.swc from Adobe. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I think it's the flex-sdk-converter-maven-extension referenced in >>>>>>>> .mvn/extensions.xml >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Josh Tynjala >>>>>>>> Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 7:43 AM Yishay Weiss < >>>>>>>> yishayj...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Compiler release is failing [1] due to playerglobal not being >>>>>>>>> found in maven repo. I checked and I can’t find com.adobe.flash there >>>>>>>>> [2] >>>>>>>>> any ideas? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> [1] Royale_Release_Step_002 #9 Console [Jenkins] (azure.com)< >>>>>>>>> http://apacheroyale.francecentral.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/job/Royale_Release_Step_002/lastBuild/console >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> [2] Central Repository: com/adobe (apache.org)< >>>>>>>>> https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/adobe/> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>
