missing dependency: junction

[yagee-de]

When trying to run the sample code I get this error message:

Execution default of goal pl.allegro:grunt-maven-plugin:1.2.1:create-resources failed:
Plugin pl.allegro:grunt-maven-plugin:1.2.1 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved:
Failure to find sysinternals:junction:exe:1.04

As I use Linux I wonder, why I need an EXE file. Beside that missing dependency stops me from execute this plugin.

[adamdubiel]

"exe" has nothing to do with operating system, it's just what this plugin downloads always. I just rebuilt sandbox project after cleaning local m2 repo and all went fine.. It downloads this artifact from:

http://www.pyx4me.com/maven2/sysinternals/junction/1.04/junction-1.04.exe

try if direct link works for you. If not, I can consider making this dependency "provided", as linking feature is probably used by small percent of grunt-maven-plugin users.

[yagee-de]

"provided" does not work, but:

  <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>pyx4me</id>
      <url>http://www.pyx4me.com/maven2/</url>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>

works.

[adamdubiel]

Did you add provided in grunt-maven-plugin pom?

It should look like this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.pyx4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-junction-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.3</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

I will test this and if it works i will create new release with updated readme. Making this optional is a good idea, this junction plugin it has some strange dependencies.

[yagee-de]

You may not have scope "provided" within dependencies of a plugin, only "compile", "runtime" and "system" are allowed. If it were optional one could add it as a dependency but you sadly cannot exclude it.

[adamdubiel]

Okay, i didn't know that, but it makes sense. It's weird that maven couldn't resolve this dependency without pointing to pyx4j repo though, no one reported this earlier and i didn't have problems building projects on different CI servers as well.

[adamdubiel]

Since 1.2.2 using junction plugin is no longer recommended, so probably in 1.3.x support for it will be removed in favor of npm-offline goal. Closing this issue.

[cliffsun91]

I know this is closed, but I'm getting this issue too and can't seem to resolve it. I have the junction.exe artifact uploaded to our local maven repository (and I can navigate to it fine via url), however I keep on getting the 'Failure to find sysinternals:junction:exe:1.04' problem.

Has anyone else had problems resolving this issue?

[adamdubiel]

I will prepare 1.3 release that will deprecate this plugin. It seems this becomes bit of an issue, so i might do it tomorrow.

[adamdubiel]

1.3 is now waiting to be transferred to maven central.