Hi there, just my few cents...An artifact type is something quite central. IMHO it is not the best way to force all artifacts to keep the information how to unpack it in their POMs and then magically fiddle it out from there.
If I type "mvn foo" and there is a maven-foo-plugin or foo-maven-plugin in the right groupId, then maven will automatically figure it out. So I would expect something similar here.
<packaging>aar</packaging>could trigger that some aar-maven-plugin is responsible for packaging. There could be a convenience goal for unpacking.
If you want to have some proprietary packaging in some other namespace (and not available in central) there could be some hint configured in settings.xml.
Cheers Jörg Am 22.07.2014 19:41, schrieb Robert Scholte:
Hi,to be able to unpack/unarchive Maven must know which Unarchiver should be used for this type. 'aar' is not one of the few default supported types, hence the exception. The plugin responsible for packaging the aar-file should also have configured how to unarchive the aar-file. In case of dependency:unpack it is quite simple: I would expect that the packaging plugin is configured in the pom.xml with a <extension>true</extension>. This way Maven can find such information.However, I can imagine that in case of unpack-dependencies the aar-project.pom isn't used to detect the corresponding Unarchiver. Sounds like an improvement to me.thanks, Robertps. this is also an interesting usecase for the consumer-pom or the flatten-maven-pluginOp Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:40:18 +0200 schreef David Hoffer <dhoff...@gmail.com>: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] -Dave--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
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