Retrieving all available versions of an artifact

["Asmann, Roland" <Ro...@adesso.at>]

Hi all,

I'm writing a plug-in and currently need a list of all available 
versions for a specific artifact. I've found this method:

ArtifactMetadataSource.retrieveAvailableVersions

which I thought would do this. However, this method does not give the 
list of available SNAPSHOTs.

In my plug-in I want to make sure that the latest version of a certain 
artifact is used. This version may either be the latest release or a 
newer SNAPSHOT. But like I said, the method doesn't give me the latest 
version of the SNAPSHOTs.

I figured out already, that this is because the implementation of the 
above method only checks the remote release repositories. It doesn't 
look in the local repository (which in my tests contained the SNAPSHOT I 
was looking for) or the remote snapshot repositories.

Does anybody know if there is a method that does exactly what I want, or 
am I stuck to defining my snapshot repositories to contain releases as 
well? The latter is a workaround that gets me the artifact, but now 
Maven tries to resolve all artifacts to that repo as well, and it makes 
my build that much slower.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Roland Asmann
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Re: Retrieving all available versions of an artifact

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Asmann, Roland
<Ro...@adesso.at> wrote:

> I'm writing a plug-in and currently need a list of all available
> versions for a specific artifact. I've found this method:

The Codehaus mojo dev list might be a better place to find plugin
developers to ask...

And you might want to look at the Versions Maven Plugin over there, I
think it does something similar:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/ .

-- 
Wendy

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