Re: [aether-dev] How to download dependencies of dependency artifact of

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ren Jith wrote:

> How can I download dependencies of dependency artifact of an Artifact using
> the sonatype-aether  Java API.

Moving thread to user list which is the more appropriate place for this 
question.

> I have found the below java file in git repository.
>
> http://git.eclipse.org/c/aether/aether-demo.git/tree/aether-demo-snippets/src/main/java/org/eclipse/aether/examples/GetDependencyTree.java
>
> But this wont help me. because I have some custom tags and elements in
> POM.xml file. So the API will give pom parser errors while downloading the
> dependency.

The example uses the maven-aether-provider from the Apache Maven project 
to parse pom.xml and other Maven related repository files. If you employ 
POMs that aren't actually following Maven's schema, you will have to 
implement your own ArtifactDescriptorReader to tell Aether how to handle 
those. See 
org.apache.maven.repository.internal.DefaultArtifactDescriptorReader in 
said maven-aether-provider for an example to implement this interface.


Benjamin