Possible to use maven_install with local repository?

[Robert Cauble]

Hi,

I am using maven_install and attempting to reference a snapshot versioned artifact in my local repo. I tried specifying repositories = [ "file:///home/user/.m2/repository"];

But I get the following error message "Only artifacts downloaded over http(s) are supported".

Are there any plans to support local maven repository? My use case is that I am experimenting with migrating my maven-based to bazel. But I have a number of dependencies on other projects in my org that still use maven. From time to time I need to do a local build with maven of their source and would like to use that in my build.

Thanks,

Rob

[Alex Humesky]

The usage example here https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external#usage has:

"http://username:password@localhost:8081/artifactory/my-repository",

so I would guess that the way around not being able to use "file://" is to host the repo locally (I don't know myself the best or easiest way to do that).

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[Robert Cauble]

Thanks! I found the following work:

1) mvn install -DcreateChecksum=true (without this you'll get errors about missing sha files).

2) cd ~/.m2/repository
3) python -m http.server

You can then reference the repository simply as "localhost:8000".

[Robert Cauble]

This issue was also fixed by updating my rules_jvm_external version. As I mentioned in a different post, I was using an old version from the example here: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/5.1.0/migrate-maven.html

I can now specify a file url in my list of repositories like this:

file:///home/<user>/.m2/repository