Re: [aether-users] Resolving version range for secondary artifact

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marcel Bruch wrote:

> Now, I'd like to issue a "highest-version" range query over the attached "model" artifact only. With the code below, I always get the highest version of the primary artifact, i.e, for the range request
>
>    org.eclipse.jface:org.eclipse.jface:zip:models:[0,3.8.0)
>
> it returns
>
>    org.eclipse.jface:org.eclipse.jface:zip:models:3.7.1
>
> which does not exist. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? Can I somehow limit the search to "zip:models" only?

Conceptually, there is nothing wrong with your approach. However, 
version range resolution in Maven repos is dependent on the contents of 
maven-metadata.xml files which in their current form do not track the 
versions of secondary artifacts.

Ideally, these files get extended one day to more precisely track the 
available versions but until then, you're left with the try-and-see 
approach you sketched as workaround.


Benjamin