I haven't been able to compile webdriver with Maven, and I have no idea why.
I don't know when the problem was introduced as I haven't done a full compile in a (long?) while. I can compile the Firefox and Common modules without problems (which is why I hadn't run into this yet), but not the HtmlUnit. This also happens with a clean checkout, so I'm not sure if the problem is on my side. I also don't know when it was introduced, but the first time I noticed it was about a week ago.
I searched for relevant revision messages and found 516 - but for some reason read September instead of August in the commit date and decided to wait a couple of days to see if it was a repository propagation error or something. Today I saw the correct date, and I think one month is more than enough :)
Any help in solving this would be greatly appreciated! I tried searching the group, but couldn't find any topics related to this... I also don't have any Maven experience, so I really have no idea of where to start looking for the solution.
Here is the error message when I try to do mvn compile from the root folder.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
nt-0.5.1-SNAPSHOT.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
Project ID: null:webdriver-htmlunit:jar:null
Reason: Cannot find parent: org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent for project: null:webdriver-htmlunit:jar:null for project null
:webdriver-htmlunit:jar:null
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Cannot find parent: org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent for project: null:we
bdriver-htmlunit:jar:null for project null:webdriver-htmlunit:jar:null
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:378)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:292)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:129)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:287)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Cannot find parent: org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent for proj
ect: null:webdriver-htmlunit:jar:null for project null:webdriver-htmlunit:jar:null
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1370)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:821)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFileInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:506)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:198)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:583)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:461)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:534)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365)
... 11 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: POM 'org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent' not found in repositor
y: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent:pom:0.5.1-SNAPSHOT
from the specified remote repositories:
for project org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:603)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1366)
... 18 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactNotFoundException: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
org.openqa.selenium.webdriver:webdriver-parent:pom:0.5.1-SNAPSHOT
from the specified remote repositories:
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:212)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:74)
at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepository(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:556)
... 19 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.ResourceDoesNotExistException: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
at org.apache.maven.artifact.manager.DefaultWagonManager.getArtifact(DefaultWagonManager.java:331)
at org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(DefaultArtifactResolver.java:200)
... 21 more
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Oct 06 03:38:18 BST 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank you in advance!
André Nogueira