Re: [aether-users] Guide to writing an aether provider

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bk Lau wrote:

> Is there any guide/pointers on how to write a custom aether provider and
> how to enable it to be picked and located?
> Basically, i have a legacy artifact repo that I want to wrap using Aether.

What exactly is a "legacy artifact repo"? A Maven repository using the 
legacy layout? If so, you want to implement a RepositoryLayoutFactory 
[0]. There's no special guide other than the open source of the existing 
impl for the Maven2 default layout which serves as inspiration.

The specifics of how to ensure your new impls gets loaded depend on the 
way you boot Aether. E.g. if using the Sisu, the @Named annotation would 
be sufficient, if using the DefaultServiceLocator, a call to its 
addService(RepositoryLayout.class, YourImpl.class) would do.


Benjamin


[0] 
http://download.eclipse.org/aether/aether-core/0.9.0.M3/apidocs/org/eclipse/aether/spi/connector/layout/RepositoryLayoutFactory.html