Consuming an aar /2

[Philippe Riand]

Not sure if the questions are monitored and must be accepted before showing, but looks like the one I posted this morning is not there. So I'm reposting it:-)

Basically, I'd like to consume an aar from IBM: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/mobilepush/c_android_enable.html#tag_based_notifications

So I added the following dependency to my project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.ibm.mobilefirstplatform.clientsdk.android</groupId>
    <artifactId>push</artifactId>
    <type>aar</type>
    <version>3.4.1</version>
</dependency>

The library is an aar, so it cannot find it without the type explicitly specified. Now, the library itself has other aar dependencies but its pom.xml is missing the type:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.android.support</groupId>
      <artifactId>appcompat-v7</artifactId>
      <version>23.1.1</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.firebase</groupId>
      <artifactId>firebase-messaging</artifactId>
      <version>9.0.1</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>

It works perfectly well with the Android studio as gradle automatically picks them up as aar. But the Maven plugin fails as it looks for jar file:

The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.android.support:appcompat-v7:jar:23.1.1, com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:jar:9.0.1

Any idea on how this can be fixed without adding the <type> in the the pom.xml of the library?

I tried it in local .me. It worked, but I'm not controlling this as this is an IBM asset.

Seems to be a pretty common case when consuming external libraries