[MNG-1954] Need better handling of malformed poms in local cache, like check for an update every run

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: Artifacts and Repositories
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 11/Jan/06 16:46
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 01/Jun/07 13:38

Description

If a pom has a typo in it, it is downloaded and parsed with a (misspelled) error message printed

[m2:libraries] [WARNING] POM for 'org.hibernate:hibernate-tools:pom:3.1.0.beta2' is invalid. It will be ignored for artifact resolution. Reason: Parse error reading POM. Reason: expected > to finsh end tag not < from line 7 (position: TEXT seen ...</dependency>\r\n </dependencies\r\n<... @29:2)

but if the pom is corrected in the source repository, the local system doesnt check for a change, it just goes with what is there.

Invalid pom files should be remembered and replacements looked for, because there is no value in retaining them.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-1258 Add option to redownload poms
• is related to: MNG-1609 Force update of files in the repo if checksum has been updated