[MDEP-508] URL contains illegal character ("[") for google guava artifact from central repo (goal: dependency:go-offline)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: go-offline, resolve-plugins
• Environment: CentOS 6.7; Tycho 0.23.0
• Assignee: Guillaume Boué
• Reporter: Mark Leone
• Created: 05/Oct/15 00:14
• Updated: 17/Dec/16 22:27
• Resolved: 17/Dec/16 22:27

Description

While running the Maven goal dependency:go-offline, the build fails while trying to download google guava artifacts from the central repository. The error message indicates an illegal character in the URL, specifically a "[" character, which comes from the version specifier.

First I run

mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=/some/path/ -DgeneratePom=true clean install

to create the artifacts, and that build succeeds. Then when I run

mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=/some/path/ -o clean install

it fails because it's running in offline mode and there is no local cache available for http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/8.6

So then I run

mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=/some/path/ dependency:go-offline

to make it download all the artifacts it needs for the build, but it fails with this message:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:resolve-plugins (resolve-plugins) on project : Nested: Could not transfer artifact com.google.guava:guava:jar:[10.0.1,14.0.1] from/to central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2): Illegal character in path at index 60: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/guava/guava/[10.0.1,14.0.1]/guava-[10.0.1,14.0.1].jar

The product being built is an Eclipse RCP product, using the org.eclipse.tycho:target-platform-configuration plug-in to load the dependencies from an RCP target file.