[MNG-3834] Improve error message when dependency with classifier is missing version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.11, 2.2.0, 3.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: Errors
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul Gier
• Reporter: Paul Gier
• Created: 11/Nov/08 15:26
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:53
• Resolved: 13/Apr/09 13:36

Description

Currently, if I have two dependencies on the same groupId:artifactId, one with a classifier and one without, the missing version error message does not distinguish which dependency is missing a version. For example, the following pom is missing a version number for one of the dependencies.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
  <artifactId>missing-version-error</artifactId>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>
  <name>Missing version error</name>
  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>myartifact1</artifactId>
      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>myartifact1</artifactId>
      <classifier>test</classifier>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

The error message prints the following:

Validation Messages:

    [0]  'dependencies.dependency.version' is missing for org.apache.maven:myartifact1

The error message should include information about the dependency's classifier.