[ARCHETYPE-529] Maven archetype:generate does not find local archetypes in interactive mode

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Environment: Apache Maven 3.5.0; Archetype Plugin 3.0.1; JDK 8; mac OS Sierra
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Björn Raupach
• Created: 16/Aug/17 10:01
• Updated: 16/Aug/17 10:02

Description

Hi there,

I have seen other tickets namely ARCHETYPE-519 and ARCHETYPE-528. This might be related. I am not on the dev or user list so I am not sure if this has been discussed. If so, feel free to close this issue, no harm done.

tl;dr: Maven 3.5.0 uses maven-archetype-plugin:2.4 and does not find archetypes created with plugin version 3.0.1 in local repository in interactive mode.

We created a Maven archetype for projects with the goal archetype:create-from-project. This went smooth and I can do a mvn install in the archetype projects folder. I can verify that there is an entry in ~/.m2/repository/archetype-catalog.xml

Since this is for internal use we didn't plan to upload the archetype to a repository. Developers should simply checkout the archetype project folder and do a mvn install.

While in the archetypes project folder I can see the archetype with mvn archetype:generate. I guess this is because there is a pom.xml in the directory which declares version 3.0.1 in the plugins section.

Now, if go to a different directory and try to generate a quickstart project with mvn archetype:generate the local archetype is missing. However it works in non-interactive mode.

mvn archetype:generate 
    -DarchetypeCatalog=local 
    -DarchetypeGroupId=<archetypeGroupId> 
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=<archetypeArtifactId>
    ...
    -DinteractiveMode=false

This creates a project based on the archetype but issues a warning during the process.

[WARNING] Archetype not found in any catalog. Falling back to central repository (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2).
[WARNING] Use -DarchetypeRepository=<your repository> if archetype's repository is elsewhere.

Maven 3.5.0 still uses the 2.4 version of the archetype plugin.