nuget-maven

This maven plugin provides a wagon that is capable of downloading nuget artifacts. It is mainly intended to be used with the c# maven plugin, however it can be used without it. It provides a wagon capable of to download packages from nuget that are specified as dependencies. For this to work the plugin needs to activated with extensions:

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>io.github.miracelwhipp.net.nuget.plugin</groupId>
                <artifactId>nuget-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${project.version}</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
            </plugin>

and nuget needs to be added to the projects repositories:

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>nuget</id>
            <name>microsoft nuget repository</name>
            <url>nuget://api.nuget.org/v3-flatcontainer/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

Note that the url starts with nuget. This is mavens hint to activate the nuget-maven-plugins wagon to contact api.nuget.org/v3-flatcontainer. Now a dependency can be specified that references an artifact from nuget, for example newtonsoft.json:

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>Newtonsoft.Json</groupId>
            <artifactId>Newtonsoft.Json</artifactId>
            <version>12.0.1</version>
            <type>dll</type>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

Since maven artifacts have a groupId and an artifactId and nuget artifacts simply have an id, it is good practice writing the same to groupId and artifactId, however only the groupId is important - the artifactId gets ignored. As a result the dependency above will instruct the plugin to download newtonsonft.json in version 12.0.1 from nuget to the local maven repository. In fact, it will do a little more: it will download the complete nupkg-package and unpack the dll.