[MDEP-335] -Dtransitive=true does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: get
• Environment: Ubuntu Oneiric, JDK 6u29, Maven 3.0.3
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Jesse N. Glick
• Created: 04/Nov/11 11:32
• Updated: 06/Jan/16 20:21
• Resolved: 08/Nov/11 15:17

Description

mvn dependency:get does not download transitive dependencies, only the specified artifact. Adding -Dtransitive=true (even though this is documented to be the default) does not help. The cause seems to be a simple typo; with that fixed, the goal works as far as I can tell:

Index: src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/dependency/GetMojo.java
===================================================================
--- src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/dependency/GetMojo.java	(revision 1197624)
+++ src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugin/dependency/GetMojo.java	(working copy)
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
 
     /**
      * Download transitively, retrieving the specified artifact and all of its dependencies.
-     * @parameter expression="{$transitive}" default-value=true
+     * @parameter expression="${transitive}" default-value=true
      */
     private boolean transitive = true;
 

Issue Links

• duplicates: MDEP-284 Get Mojo ignores the transitive attribute because of a typo in the parameter declaration