[ACCUMULO-191] system scope libthrift dependency breaks transitive dependencies

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.5-incubating
• Assignee: Adam Fuchs
• Reporter: Adam Fuchs
• Created: 29/Nov/11 18:26
• Updated: 02/Dec/11 15:47
• Resolved: 02/Dec/11 15:46

Description

libthrift-0.3.jar is not available in any public maven repository, so we included it in the contrib directory and referred to it as a system scope dependency. However, building client that includes accumulo-core as a dependency results in:

[WARNING] The POM for org.apache.accumulo:accumulo-core:jar:1.3.5-incubating-SNAPSHOT is invalid, transitive dependencies (if any) will not be available, enable debug logging for more details

The system scope dependency in the current pom.xml refers to a path that is not an absolute path when the pom.xml is referenced by external projects.

One solution would be to host libthrift-0.3 in a semi-private repository (e.g. incubator.apache.org/accumulo/mvn_repo), and change the pom to include that repository with libthrift version 0.3 with a compile scope.

This is only a 1.3 branch problem, since 1.4 and later use a thrift version that is in the apache maven repository.