Here is a simplified project showing my use-case, I hope this helps. Note I'm using unpack-dependencies as the aar is a module in the same project; however I assume the same problem exists with unpack, if that's the case that would make the test project even simpler.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <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.company.project</groupId> <artifactId>service</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> <dependencies> <!--note: maven-dependency-plug fails reporting that aar is not supported--> <dependency> <groupId>com.company.project</groupId> <artifactId>axis-service</artifactId> <type>aar</type> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> <!--note: I assume it will have the same problem unpacking a public artifact such as this--> <dependency> <groupId>com.helpshift</groupId> <artifactId>android-aar</artifactId> <version>3.4.2</version> <type>aar</type> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <id>unpack-axis-service</id> <phase>generate-resources</phase> <goals> <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal> </goals> <configuration> <includeArtifactIds>axis-service</includeArtifactIds> <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-resources/axis</outputDirectory> <overWriteReleases>true</overWriteReleases> <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots> <includes>META-INF/*.wsdl,META-INF/schema/**/*.xsd</includes> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de> wrote: > HI David, > > > > > I'm getting the following error trying to unpack some files from an aar. > >> Is this not supported? Is there any way to do this? >> >> Failed to execute goal >> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:unpack-dependencies >> (unpack-service) on project service: Unknown archiver type: No such >> archiver: 'aar'. -> [Help 1] >> > > Could you please prepare a example project which reproduces the > problem..so i can create a JIRA issue for this... > > Kind regards > Karl-Heinz Marbaise > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >