maven deploy-file failed with 503: cannot find maven-metadata.xml - maven

I am using Maven to integrate our project with others, maybe in a unpopular way and encountered issue.
We have a project that used to compile with Ant. Ant script is big and awesome, so when we are using Maven for integration, it is decided to keep compiling with Ant.
Now let's say Ant compile output is res-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz. (any filename can be possible but it IS tar.gz) And I am deploying the file to a nexus-hosted snapshot repository called "snapshots".
I tried to deploy with this command:
mvn deploy:deploy-file \
-DgroupId="com.my-company" \
-DartifactId="res" \
-Dversion="1.0-SNAPSHOT" \
-Dpackaging="tar.gz" \
-Dfile="res-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz" \
-Durl="http://our-nexus-ip/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots" \
-DrepositoryId="snapshots"
I have a simple settings.xml in ~/.m2 with proxy and server settings. However server settings is not being used in current progress yet, wrong passwords don't get errors.
The output is like this:
[[root#cnbi maven]# ./run.sh
+ mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.my-company -DartifactId=res -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=tar.gz -Dfile=res-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz -Durl=http://135.252.234.142:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots -DrepositoryId=snapshots
Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'deploy'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Default Project
[INFO] task-segment: [deploy:deploy-file] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [deploy:deploy-file]
[INFO] Retrieving previous build number from snapshots
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error retrieving previous build number for artifact 'com.my-company:res:tar.gz': repository metadata for: 'snapshot com.my-company:res:1.0-SNAPSHOT' could not be retrieved from repository: snapshots due to an error: Error transferring file
Server returned HTTP response code: 503 for URL: http://135.252.234.142:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/my-company/res/1.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 51 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jun 12 08:44:13 CST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 7M/209M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
You see, it fails to find maven-metadata.xml. It is for certain, the file and its folder "com/my-company" do not exist at all in the repository.
Besides any misuse of Maven you may find, my questions are:
1) am I using Maven in the right way? (deploying tar.gz, using deploy:deploy-file...)
2) are there incorrect parameters?
3) what is maven-metadata.xml for? It is not there but Maven insists to find it -- I guess it is generated, am I missing some steps?
The solution might be stupid, I am really not familiar with Maven. Unfortunately it has to be done... Please, help me out of this.
Maven version is 2.0.11. Let me know if you want to know more.

I had the same problem and there was a bug in our nexus.
Using maven3 (with same settings.xml, pom.xml and .m2 repo) solved our problem and its easier than upgrading nexus.
You can check this bug also.

If you're still stuck with using Ant, I would recommend you at least consider adding Ivy to the picture, as your dependency manager. If I recall correctly, it was able to update maven-metadata.xml files in the repository.
Have a look at this example.

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Jenkins configuration to download jar file from Maven central and put it in Nexus

I have an environment and we skipped to download all the dependencies from Maven central. So we need to create a Jenkins job and it has a parameter with detail for which component jar it should download from central, and if we provide that details it should download and it needs to be put in a particular repository in Nexus.
I'm totally new to this environment, can someone provide inputs of any plugins to use or some scripts to be used ? Thanks in advance !
Unfortunately that is not so trivial as it might seem. At first glance there are two plugins which might help:
maven-dependency-plugin - may download artifact from repository
maven-deploy-plugin - may upload artifact to repository
however that won't work due to a "couple" of reasons:
artifacts have dependencies - that is not enough to transfer single artifact and tell developers something like "well, now you may use it" - you need to traverse all transitive dependencies and transfer them as well
artifacts have classifiers - most useful of them are javadoc and sources, and if artifact has those useful classifiers it is a good idea to transfer them as well
artifact descriptor (pom) may refer to another (parent) pom - there is a dedicated cauldron in the hell for developers who do not flatten poms when publishing artifacts, however we can do nothing with that - we need to transfer parent poms as well
dependencies may have snapshot or range versions - there is another dedicated cauldron in the hell for developers who use such dependencies
and the reasonings mentioned above lead us to the idea that we need a specialised software (read: basic shell scripting won't work) which is capable to transfer consistent copy of artifact from one repository to another. And all the time I did believe the guys, who are responsible for such decisions (create own trusted repository and manage it), do have idea how to do that properly, unfortunately it seems that they don't.
I have tried to implement some PoC using maven API which is capable to transfer consistent copies (transitive dependencies, pom and parent poms) of artifacts across repositories, hope that will help.
% mvn tel.panfilov.maven:reposync-maven-plugin:0.1.0:single \
-Dartifact=org.springframework:spring-tx:5.3.22 \
-DsourceRepositories=central::default::https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 \
-DtargetRepository=local::::http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-releases \
-Dtransitive=true \
-DdryRun=true \
-DsyncSources=true \
-DsyncJavadoc=true
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------< org.apache.maven:standalone-pom >-------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- reposync-maven-plugin:0.1.0:single (default-cli) # standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Processing Dependency {groupId=org.springframework, artifactId=spring-tx, version=5.3.22, type=jar}
[INFO] Source repositories: [central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2, default, releases+snapshots)]
[INFO] Target repository: local (http://localhost:8081/repository/maven-releases/, default, releases+snapshots)
[INFO] Discovered 16 artifacts
[INFO] org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:5.3.22
...
[INFO] org.springframework:spring-tx:pom:5.3.22
[INFO] Found 16 missing artifacts
[INFO] org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:5.3.22
...
[INFO] org.springframework:spring-tx:pom:5.3.22
[INFO] Dry run, exiting
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Error when trying to 'mvn clean install' Gerrit's replication plugin

This is probably a newbie question, but I'm new to Maven.
I'm trying to build Gerrit's replication plugin, "since the master branch (and thus Gerrit 2.5) no longer supports replication out of the box."
So I did clone https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/replication and executed mvn clean install inside the new directory. The error message is:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building replication 1.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WARNING] The POM for com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.840s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 25 17:30:10 BRT 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/105M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project replication: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.replication:replication:jar:1.1-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api:jar:2.6-SNAPSHOT in https://gerrit-api.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/release/ was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be
reattempted until the update interval of gerrit-api-repository has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
It looks like this URL isn't valid: https://gerrit-api.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/release/ -- but like I said, I'm new to Maven so I'm not sure how to proceed. I did some research, but I don't know what I'm looking for.
Any pointer would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
A couple of things -
You are missing the gerrit-plugin-api.jar. This currently isn't provided upstream, so you must build it yourself. I believe running mvn install from a Gerrit repository will package and add this jar to your system.
You don't want to run install, you just want to run package on the plugin. mvn package will put the .jar in the target/ folder, which you then copy to your plugins folder inside your Gerrit installation.
Good luck!
Like Brad mentioned, I am missing the gerrit-plugin-api.jar. Unfortunately, I was not able to build it, since the Gerrit repos seem to be facing issues lately, as mentioned in other threads (this one, for instance - from two days ago).
Anyway, below are my additional steps based on Brad's answer (hopefully this may help others):
git clone https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
cd gerrit/gerrit-plugin-api/
mvn clean install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Gerrit Code Review - Plugin API 2.7-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[WARNING] The POM for com.google.gerrit:gerrit-sshd:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for com.google.gerrit:gerrit-httpd:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
[WARNING] The POM for com.google.gerrit:gerrit-pgm:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.342s
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Apr 26 10:52:54 BRT 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 5M/105M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project gerrit-plugin-api: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.google.gerrit:gerrit-sshd:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT, com.google.gerrit:gerrit-httpd:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT, com.google.gerrit:gerrit-pgm:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find com.google.gerrit:gerrit-sshd:jar:2.7-SNAPSHOT in https://gerrit-maven.commondatastorage.googleapis.com was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of gerrit-maven has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
EDIT
These are the steps that worked for me, in case someone else faces the same issue.
git clone https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
Check available 'versions'
git branch -r
git checkout -b 2.5 origin/stable-2.5
The steps didn't work on the master branch in my environment, and I'm using 2.5...
So yeah, 2.5.
cd gerrit
mvn clean install
This will rebuild the entire universe, go grab a cup of coffee. :)
.. when done
cd gerrit-plugin-api/
mvn package
This also takes some time...
If everything goes fine, you can copy the jar at the target folder, like:
cp target/<large-name>.jar ~/replication.jar
Finally install it (from ~):
ssh -p 29418 localhost gerrit plugin install -n name \ - <replication.jar
Details on how to install Gerrit plugins are here.
The thing is, now I'm getting another error, something like:
"A binding to (something) was already configured at (something)."
But that's another story / thread / post...
Thanks and good luck!
Do a mvn -P all clean install on the toplevel, not inside gerrit-plugin-api.
The fastest way to fix is is to change the pom.xml and use a version that is not a snapshot. I was trying to build the delete-project for the stable-2.6 branch and was facing the same issue. All that needs to be done is to change the Gerrit-ApiVersion:
<Gerrit-ApiType>plugin</Gerrit-ApiType>
- <Gerrit-ApiVersion>2.6-SNAPSHOT</Gerrit-ApiVersion>
+ <Gerrit-ApiVersion>2.6-rc2</Gerrit-ApiVersion>
</properties>
<name>Delete Project Gerrit Plugin</name>
Building off of #Conaaando's answer, I performed these exact steps and successfully am using the plugin. Steps courtesy of http://asheepapart.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-build-gerrit-replication-plugin.html
git clone --recursive https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit
You need the --recursive here because the plugins are actually git submodules and won't otherwise be cloned along with your repo.
If you've already cloned, you can run git submodule init; git submodule update
cd gerrit
git checkout -b stable-2.7 origin/stable-2.7
mvn install -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true
It's not necessary to skip the tests or generating Java Doc, but it will greatly improve your compile time and decrease the amount of memory maven uses
cd gerrit-plugin-api
mvn package -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true
This creates the jar that will be necessary for the replication plugin to get built
cd plugins/replication
mvn package -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true
At this point, you have compiled and packaged the replication jar! All you need to do now is register it with your Gerrit server. For simplicity, I'll pretend your gerrit server is running at gerrit.example.com. These steps copy the replication jar to your review server and then instruct the review server to install the plugin from that copied location.
scp target/replication-2.7.jar gerrit.example.com:/tmp/
ssh -p 29418 gerrit.example.com gerrit plugin install -n replication /tmp/replication-2.7.jar

What is Maven dependency:purge-local-repository supposed to do?

I'm trying to purge the local repository of a project dependency before launching releasing it in order to make sure every dependency required is on the central repository and is downloaded from it.
In the project folder (containing the pom.xml), I launch the following command:
mvn clean dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=false -Dverbose=true
The project's POM is very simple and just have a declared dependency to junit:junit:3.8.1
The command's output give me:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building corelib-api 0.1.2-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1:clean (default-clean) # corelib-api ---
[INFO] Deleting d:\Users\fpaillard\git-repositories\TEST_CORELIB\corelib-api\target
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building corelib-api 0.1.2-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.1:purge-local-repository (default-cli) # corelib-api ---
[WARNING] Missing POM for junit:junit:jar:3.8.1
[INFO] Skipping: corelib-api. It cannot be resolved.
[INFO] Nothing to do for project: test:corelib-api:jar:0.1.2-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.953s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon May 14 11:34:40 CEST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
When I look in the local repository (path checked with mvn help:effetive-settings), junit JARs nor POMs are still in .m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1 folder.
Isn't dependency:purge-local-repository supposed to delete it?
I don't understand the WARNING of the output above. Why is junit:junit:jar:3.8.1 POM missing? It is still present at .m2/repository/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.pom
Is the problem related to the INFO line Skipping: corelib-api. It cannot be resolved.? corelib-api is the artifact name of the project I ran mvn dependency:purge-local-repository against.
I know this is old, but I had the same issue, and adding -DactTransitively=false to the command line fixed this issue. I'm unable to tell why it helped, but it did...
I hope this helps.
Looking at the documentation, disabling the actTransitively option causes the purge goal to only purge the dependencies that are named directly by your pom.xml. When it is time for the build, Maven automatically pulls not only your direct dependencies, but all of the TRANSITIVE dependencies down into your local repo as well.
When the purge goal is looking for what to delete, if it finds other dependencies in the dependencies' poms, it transverses those dependencies to figure out the entire tree in your local repository that can be purged. To do this, it at least needs the transitive project's pom.xml. If it cannot find it in the local repo, or if it thinks there might be a more recent version to analyze, it will go to the external repositories to find it.
I don't think it actually tries to download full project content before it starts purging. But since it at least pulls down the projects' pom.xml files, it will complain if it can't find one just like it would if it were resolving dependencies for an actual build.
Besides just preventing Maven from accessing external repositories while purging, another practical reason would be if you have two projects that have the same transitive dependency, and you don't want the purge from one to affect the performance of the other (since the latter will have to download any missing dependencies again).
On the other hand, something to carefully consider is that if you do NOT allow the purge to consider all of the transitive dependencies possible, you stand to leave a set of downstream dependencies sitting in your local repository that you would otherwise have wanted to remove.
I could make a case for saying that the output you are getting is either unnecessary or preventable with another flag like "reportInaccessibleDependencies=false". But unless it is killing your build, I wouldn't say it is anything to worry about.

Transitively download a Maven artifact to the local repository

I am trying to download a specific artifact (and all of its dependencies) to a machine's local repository.
It would seem that using the dependency:get goal would be the best option for this, but despite the documentation it does not seem to actually get the transitive dependencies.
Here is an example where I have tried to use dependency:get to download the spring-core jar and all of its many dependencies. You'll notice that the spring-core jar is the only thing downloaded despite the fact that this was done after cleaning the local repository.
$ mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.2:get -DrepoUrl=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ -Dartifact=org.springframework:spring-core:3.0.5.RELEASE -Dtransitive=true
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.2:get (default-cli) # standalone-pom ---
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-core/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar
Downloaded: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-core/3.0.5.RELEASE/spring-core-3.0.5.RELEASE.jar (374 KB at 548.4 KB/sec)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.401s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed May 25 00:29:47 CDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 7M/107M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
My questions are:
Is this a bug with the dependency:get goal?
If not, what am I doing wrong?
Are there any alternatives methods I could use to accomplish my initially stated goal?
If this is a one time or irregular occurrence for you, The simplest thing to do would be to define the dependency in a POM and run mvn package or similar to retrieve the dependency artifacts. You could also try mvn dependency:sources if you'd like to have the source jars too.
If this is something you want to do more regularly or as part of a process, you could look at using Aether directly to retrieve the dependencies for you.
Another approach if this is something you need to do regularly to manage groups of artifacts into your internal development ecosystem is to use Nexus' procurement suite to retrieve the dependencies and manage them into your repository.
You might can go with this solution
1) Download the artifact as you described (I tested with version 2.5.2)
c:\test>mvn -DrepoUrl=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ -Dartifact=org.springframework:spring-core:2.5.2 -Dtransitive=true
2) Download the pom (-Dpackaging=pom) of this artifact
c:\test>mvn -DrepoUrl=http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ -Dartifact=org.springframework:spring-core:2.5.2 -Dtransitive=true -Dpackaging=pom org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.2:get
3) Use the downloaded pom to copy all dependencies via the dependency:copy-dependency gaol
c:\test>mvn -DoutputDirectory=C:/test/dependency -f C:/<path-to-repository>/org/springframework/spring-core/2.5.2/spring-core-2.5.2.pom dependency:copy-dependencies
You will find the dependencies (including test and optional scope!) in the created c:\test\dependency folder. To exclude test and optional scope use -DincludeScope=runtime.
You need to dynamically build some path information (e.g. path to the pom in your repository) to set up this solution and also need to bring the artifact itself together with its dependencies but it should work in a script without generating a special pom (which might be easier).
It would appear the answer to question #1 (Is this a bug with the dependency:get goal?) is yes. As of 5/25/2011 issue MDEP-308 is still unresolved.

Jenkins (hudson) plugin development meet maven-enforcer-plugin:1.1-SNAPSHOT issue

I try to develop one jenkins (a.k.a hudson) plugin, and follow the Tutorial, and generated source code tree after mvn -cpu hpi:create command.
While when I do "mvn package", it reports error like
[INFO] Building Unnamed - com.example.jenkins:redmine2:hpi:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] task-segment: [clean]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin
Reason: Error getting POM for 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin' from the repository: Failed to resolve artifact, possibly due to a repository list that is not appropriately equipped for this artifact's metadata.
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:pom:1.1-SNAPSHOT
from the specified remote repositories:
nexus (http://maven.nexus.local:8888/nexus/content/groups/public)
for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin
From my nexus server, it has maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0 version only, but this dependence is generated from jenkins by default, anyone can help me to solve it ?
(How) Can I change to plugin-1.0 version.
what can I add in nexus server
I just have basic knowledge of maven.
I fixed it by myself by doing two things.
1. Added Apache snapshot from here into my nexus repo group besides those setting in Tutorial
2. It seems my local maven repo is messed up as well, so I can clean it up and reload from nexus.
And it still use maven-enforcer-plugin:pom:1.1-SNAPSHOT plugins.
Hope it helps you as well.

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