Re: [aether-users] How to download just the POM of an artifact?

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Sewe wrote:

> what is the right request to just download a POM file from a remote
> repository?
>
> I tried issuing a
>
>    new ArtifactRequest(new DefaultArtifact(groupId, artifactId, "pom",
> version), repos, null);
> [...]
> but to no avail. If the artifact in question is not of packaging "pom"
> the requests yield results whose result.getArtifact().getFile() is null.

There's a ResolveArtifact class among the examples. Tweaking this to

  Artifact artifact = new DefaultArtifact( 
"org.sonatype.aether:aether-util:pom:1.13" );
  RemoteRepository repo = Booter.newCentralRepository();

  ArtifactRequest artifactRequest = new ArtifactRequest();
  artifactRequest.setArtifact( artifact );
  artifactRequest.addRepository( repo );
  ArtifactResult artifactResult = system.resolveArtifact( session, 
artifactRequest );

  artifact = artifactResult.getArtifact();

  System.out.println( artifact + " resolved to  " + artifact.getFile() );

works for me. So you might want to double-check why exactly your code 
didn't work, it's generally the right approach.

> (preferably with Sonatype Aether 0.13.1, which I still have to use)?

Out of curiosity, why exactly are you bound to this old version?


Benjamin