maven-local-build-plugin

Collects non-public maven dependencies to local file repository in order to distribute it with sources

This will allow to distribute projects depending on non-public artifacts from private repository. It will create a local file repository to be distributed with source code. Not the best practice, but we need it sometimes.

Plugin is really slow and makes a lot of assumptions. Multimodule projects parent module, for example, must have a name "project" (artifactId) or "project.parent". All projects must be deployed to repository and local repo must me emptied (remove repository folder from ~/.m2). There are numerous other problems :)

Configuration

Add a profile to (parent) pom.xml

    <profile>
        <id>collect</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>com.guanoislands</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven.localbuild-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <targetRepositoryPath>${main.basedir}/shipment/build</targetRepositoryPath>
                        <includes>
                            <include>
                                <groupIdMask>*</groupIdMask>
                                <artifactIdMask>*</artifactIdMask>
                            </include>
                        </includes>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <phase>compile</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>collect</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>

Includes and excludes will allow to include or exclude certain artifacts by mask:

    <include>
            <groupIdMask>com.guanoislands*</groupIdMask>
            <artifactIdMask>*</artifactIdMask>
    </include>

And a repository pointing to local folder pointing at targetRepositoryPath from plugin configuration above

    <repository>
        <id>local-build-repo</id>
        <name>local-build-repo</name>
        <url>file://${main.basedir}/shipment/build</url>
    </repository>

Usage

Build plugin from maven

mvn clean install

Move to (parent) project and build project with new profile

mvn clean install -P collect

This will collect private dependencies to local file repository, and it will be possible to build project with no access to your private repository.