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[wstrange]

I'm coming from a complete novice background on bazel, so this may seem like an insanely dumb question.

How does one invoke the rules_bazel to trigger generation of the the deps info that is pasted into the BUILD / WORKSPACE files.

If you could add additional commands to the README that would be great (assume folks like me that really don't know bazel and are just evaluating it).

Thx!

[pcj]

Hi @wstrange

The bottom line is that you must invoke bazel build :something where :something has a dependency on the generated compile/runtime target. For example, say you define maven_repository(name = "internal_artifacts") in your WORKSPACE. Nothing will happen until you try to build a java target like java_library(name = "app", deps = ["@internal_artifacts//:compile"]) (because bazel is very lazy).

Once you do, the steps mentioned in this other thread start kicking in...

See also https://github.com/pubref/rules_maven/issues/11#issuecomment-332652686

Or take a look at one of the examples, like https://github.com/pubref/rules_maven/blob/master/example/grpc_java/src/main/java/BUILD#L3

[wstrange]

OK - getting further, but not working yet with a private repo.

I have something like this in my pom:

  <repository>                                                                    
      <id>acme-internal-releases</id>                                        
      <name>acme Release Repository</name>                                   
      <url>http://maven.acme.org/repo/internal-releases</url>                
      <snapshots>                                                                 
          <enabled>false</enabled>                                                
      </snapshots>                                                                
  </repository>      

What should my repositories= look like?

I get

File "/private/var/tmp/_bazel_warren.strange/15413094b26a5a40f16bf0f72815c25f/external/org_pubref_rules_maven/maven/internal/maven_repository.bzl", line 180, in _parse_gradle_dependencies
                fail(("Unable to fetch dependency: " ...))

I have authN settings in my ~/.m2/settings.xml that authenticate to that repo

[wstrange]

OK, I gather the private repo functionality is not implemented yet. I'll close off this issue since it is not relevant.