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ali haider
ali haider

Reputation: 20182

maven dependency issue with parent-child reference

I am using apache maven 3.1.0 (after quite some time) on windows for a project put together by somebody else. I have a parent pom & multiple child pom xml files. The child pom contains the following which is causing an issue when I run mvn clean install:

<parent>
    <groupId>com.test.platform</groupId>
    <artifactId>test-parent</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>

The error I get from mvn -e points to a dependency issue due to inability to find the artifact (referring to the 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT). I am not sure if I am missing a step or need to change something with my project/pom xml files. Any useful suggestions would be welcome (I can post more detailed error messages if needed). Thanks!

Update: I have also tried adding a relative path to the child pom xml file though its still giving me an error.

Directory Structure:

  Main Directory -> pom.xml file 
        Child Directory -> pom.xml file (with parent tag) - I added the relative section to it as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2398

Answers (1)

digitaljoel
digitaljoel

Reputation: 26574

Interesting that the Introduction to the POM shows the relativePath as pointing directly to the pom.xml file, whereas the POM reference shows the relativePath pointing to the parent module/project, and not to the pom. Perhaps it supports both, but I can tell you that the project I'm looking at now (which works) has <relativePath>../myParentProject</relativePath>

Perhaps you could try to set the relative path in your project to ../

Of course, this all assumes that the answer to the question of whether 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT of the parent actually exists in your repository is YES.

Upvotes: 1

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