Shifty Maven Plugin¶

A maven plugin to download and maybe unpack a set of artifacts

Similar to the dependency plugin but

efficiently leveraging metadata to be fast
using version ranges for fluidity
using parallel execution where possible
record the resolved version for use in other plugins

Usage¶

Fetching a dependency, this will download sticky-coercion-2.7.jar to target/shifty/:

<plugin>
   <groupId>net.stickycode.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>shifty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>1.2</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>test</id>
       <phase>validate</phase>
       <goals>
         <goal>fetch</goal>
       </goals>
       <configuration>
         <artifacts>
           <artifact>net.stickycode:sticky-coercion:[2.1,3)</artifact>
         </artifacts>
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

Unpack a zip/jar into target/shifty:

<plugin>
   <groupId>net.stickycode.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>shifty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>1.2</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>test</id>
       <phase>validate</phase>
       <goals>
         <goal>fetch</goal>
       </goals>
       <configuration>
         <unpack>true</unpack>
         <artifacts>
           <artifact>net.stickycode:sticky-coercion:[2.1,3):sources:jar</artifact>
         </artifacts>
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

Unpack a zip/jar into target/other and only include java files excluding exceptions:

<plugin>
   <groupId>net.stickycode.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>shifty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>1.2</version>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>test</id>
       <phase>validate</phase>
       <goals>
         <goal>fetch</goal>
       </goals>
       <configuration>
         <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/other</outputDirectory>
         <unpack>true</unpack>
         <includes>
           <include>**/*.java</include>
         </includes>
         <excludes>
           <exclude>**/*Exception.java</exclude>
         </excludes
         <artifacts>
           <artifact>net.stickycode:sticky-coercion:[2.1,3):sources:jar</artifact>
         </artifacts>
       </configuration>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

How it works¶

Its pretty straight forward, for gav net.stickycode:sticky-coercion:[2.1,3):

[2.1,3) is first resolved, in this case to 2.7 via metadata
and the property sticky-coercion.version is set to 2.7
the artifact sticky-coercion-2.7 is resolved and downloaded if needed
the artifact is copied into the output directory

Note that a Maven property is set in case you need to reference the artifact after its resolved.