[MINSTALL-87] Install:install-file on missing file should fail, not indicate success with bogus jar file message

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: install:install-file

Environment

Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 03:44:56-0500)
Maven home: /home/user/Programs/apache-maven-3.0.4
Java version: 1.6.0_30, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_30/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8

RHEL 6.1

• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Chris Lott
• Created: 21/May/12 10:09
• Updated: 30/Jul/12 15:44
• Resolved: 30/Jul/12 15:44

Description

I had to install a third-party jar into my local repository and used maven to do so. But I botched the file name, and confusingly the plugin did not complain; in fact it reported total success. It creates a pom file but no jar file. I think the build should fail if the file to be installed is not found.

Reproduce with the following invocation:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=foo -DartifactId=foo -Dversion=1 -Dfile=/tmp/doesnotexit-comma-trust-me -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true

Below is the log from running this operation. Despite the message, it did NOT create a jar file.

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]                                                                     
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install-file (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] Installing /tmp/doesnotexit-comma-trust-me to /home/user/.m2/repository/foo/foo/1/foo-1.jar
[INFO] Installing /tmp/mvninstall4193497156837259347.pom to /home/user/.m2/repository/foo/foo/1/foo-1.pom
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.422s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon May 21 11:04:30 EDT 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/359M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for listening.