[ARCHETYPE-561] Plugin picks 1.0 version of archetype when versionId not specified

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.1
• Component/s: Generator
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bruno Borges
• Created: 06/Apr/19 12:57
• Updated: 30/Mar/20 23:03

Description

When creating a project out of an archetype without specifying -DarchetypeVersion, the generator will use version 1.0, even though the maven-metadata.xml points to a later version.

The command is the following, for a clean user local repository Maven setup: 

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId='com.microsoft.azure' \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId='azure-functions-archetype' \
  -DgroupId='com.function.hello' \
  -DartifactId='helloworld' \
  -Dversion='1.0-SNAPSHOT' \
  -Dpackage='com.function.hello' \
  -DappName='helloworld-1554551180252' \
  -B -DarchetypeCatalog=internal

Now, even though -DarchetypeCatalog=internal is provided, and because the archetype does not exist in the local repository, Maven does download version 1.0 of this archetype's groupId/artifactId by default, ignoring the <latest> version specified in Maven Central's maven-metadata.xml

As one can see in the maven-metadata.xml [1], the latest version is 1.21 (or higher).

[1] https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/microsoft/azure/azure-functions-archetype/maven-metadata.xml