Am Tue, 18 May 2010 09:10:05 +0100 hat
Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> geschrieben:
On 18 May 2010 08:40, Markus Muenkel <markus.muen...@fernuni-hagen.de>wrote:


I'm releasing a Maven2 multi-module project. One of the modules is a POM

project ("assembly project") that uses the maven-assembly-plugin in
order
to
build an assembly (zip archive). The artifacts to be assembled are
specified
via dependencies in the POM. They point to modules contained in the
same
multi-module project.

When running mvn release:prepare on the multi-module project, the build
of
the assembly project fails with the message that the dependencies
cannot
be
resolved. These dependencies are reported with the version that should
be
released, e.g. 0.0.3. Before running the goal, all dependency versions
are
0.0.3-SNAPSHOT.

What seems to happen is that the snapshot version 0.0.3-SNAPSHOT is replaced by 0.0.3 and then the assembly plugin is started (which is
bound
to
the package phase).



what goal did you bind with?

It needs to be assembly:single


 Yes, it is <goal>single</goal>



The assembly plugin tries to resolve the dependencies based on version

0.0.3 which however do not yet exist at that point.


The exist in the reactor, providing the project in which assembly is
being
invoked has dependencies on those artifacts so that maven knows the
build
order must build the dependent projects first.

to test if you have this working, here is a simple test procedure: 1. mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=0.0.3-reltesting-SNAPSHOT
2. mvn clean verify
3. mvn versions:rollback

 3. mvn versions:revert

I executed this test procedure on the assembly project and in fact it produces the same problem as described above: the artifacts to be
assembled
are looked up in the repository with version 0.0.3-reltesting-SNAPSHOT
and
the build fails because the artifacts have not yet been installed with
this
version.

For me it looks like a hen-and-egg problem: releasing the assembly
project
implies building the assembly in the release version, but the assembly in turn requires the released artifacts to be installed in the repository.

Would it be possible to have the release procedure work like this: 1) Release plugin changes the version in the multi module project (that includes the assembly project and the artifacts to be assembled), i.e. to
0.0.4
2) The artifacts to be assembled are built and installed in the
repository
in version 0.0.4
3) The assembly is run and picks up the artifacts to be assembled from
the
repository in version 0.0.4
4) The assembly project is installed in the repository in version 0.0.4 Currently the install step in 2) is not happening -- this seems to be the
crucial part


If you bind things to the correct phases and have the correct project
structure then there is no need to invoke the local repository and
everything is resolved from the reactor.

You just need to restructure your project.

Where is the assembly created?

Where is that in relation to it's dependencies?

 The project structure is currently as follows:

commons
|
|-- commons.util
|
|-- commons.util.test
|
|-- commons.distribution
|   |
|   |-- assembly_descriptor.xml

where commons.distribution is the "assembly project". Its pom.xml
configures the assembly plugin like this:

<plugin>
 <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
 <executions>
   <execution>
     <id>make-assembly</id>
     <phase>package</phase>


^^^ good, if you use a phase prior to package it would fail


     <goals>
       <goal>single</goal>


        ^^^ good that is the correct goal to call


     </goals>
   </execution>
 </executions>
 <configuration>
   <descriptors>
     <descriptor>assembly_descriptor.xml</descriptor>
   </descriptors>
   <finalName>commons</finalName>
 </configuration>
</plugin>

The projects contained in the assembly are the two sibling projects commons.util and commons.util.test (both are Java projects packaged as jar). They are included in the assembly descriptor via dependencySets (I'm not sure if moduleSets would be more appropriate in this case)


are they also listed as dependecies of commons.distribution?

Yes, they are listed as
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons.util</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons.util.test</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

while the assembly_descriptor.xml contains

<dependencySets>
  <dependencySet>
    <includes>
      <include>com.acme:commons.util:jar</include>
      <include>com.acme:commons.util.test:jar</include>
    </includes>
    <unpack>false</unpack>
    <outputDirectory>${bundles.folder}</outputDirectory>
  
<outputFileNameMapping>${artifact.groupId}.${artifact.artifactId}-${artifact.version}.${artifact.extension}
    </outputFileNameMapping>
    <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
  </dependencySet>
</dependencySets>


what is the build plan?

to find the build plan run

mvn validate

and the build plan is the listing of projects in the order they will be
built.

commons.distribution needs to come after the ones you want to include.



- Markus


 you cannot create an assembly in a project which is the
xpath:/project/parent of the dependencies to be included in the assembly

-Stephen


 - Markus



it is essential that you only run up the lifecycle as far as verify when
testing, as if you go as far as install, the artifacts will have been
pushed
to the local repo (and hence issues with your reactor will be missed)

If you are under the clock [i.e. your manager is saying "this needs to
be
released yesterday, why did you recommend maven, your future at this
company
is being questioned"] then just change the preparationGoals from "clean verify" to "clean install" to get a release out the door. But the
reality
is
that such a release can end up with mixed build artifacts, wherein the dependencies copied into your assembly where the ones built during the release:prepare, while the same artifacts copied to your remote
repository
were built during release:perform... so that if somebody checks say the
md5
of the jar inside the assembly against the md5 of that same jar deployed
to
the maven repo, they will find that the checksums do not match
(different
timestamps)... additionally, if you use remoteTagging (which you pretty
much
need to) and somebody commits while release:prepare is running, then the release:perform will checkout different code and the subtle issues of
bundled artifact mismatches _will_ bite you in the ass.

So what I am saying is that you need to fix it so that your build works
with
"clean verify" on a virgin version number (i.e. a version number that
has
never been built before)... but if time pressures are forced on you, you
can
get a release out... just don't forget to fix the real problem

-Stephen

I guess it is not a problem in Maven but I'm missing practice on how to

 perform a successful release in this situation.





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