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ceekay
ceekay

Reputation: 83

Android library's sub dependencies in private Maven repo is not downloaded by project

The Android library is hosted in a private Maven Artifactory repo in the company that I'm working in. This library is using okhttp as a one of the dependencies.

In the application project I import this library as such:

compile 'com.domain.artifact:myartifact:1.0.0@aar'

The library is imported, however when I call the API in the library, the application crashes with ClassNotFoundException due to missing okhttp classes.

Doing a gradle command to print dependencies shows that the application project does not download any of the library's dependency (including okhttp)

+--- com.domain.artifact:myartifact:1.0.0
\--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.1
     \--- com.android.support:support-v4:25.0.1
          +--- com.android.support:support-compat:25.0.1
          |    \--- com.android.support:support-annotations:25.0.1
          +--- com.android.support:support-media-compat:25.0.1
          |    \--- com.android.support:support-compat:25.0.1 (*)
          +--- com.android.support:support-core-utils:25.0.1
          |    \--- com.android.support:support-compat:25.0.1 (*)
          \--- com.android.support:support-core-ui:25.0.1

How can I ensure that the library's dependencies are also downloaded or published successfully?

====== Additional Info =======

The library is published with "maven-publish" plugin, and dependency is added using "pom.withXml" in the gradle script, and okhttp is in the POM file of the library.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
    <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
    <version>3.4.1</version>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 687

Answers (1)

Gabriele Mariotti
Gabriele Mariotti

Reputation: 364005

You are using the @aar notation in your dependency.

It means that you want to download only the aar artifact excluding all nested dependencies.
You can check this part of documentation:
Check the Artifact only notation section:

An artifact only notation creates a module dependency which downloads only the artifact file with the specified extension. Existing module descriptors are ignored.

Using the @aar notation if you want to download the dependencies, you should add transitive=true.

I'd expect that omitting @aar it should work.

Upvotes: 3

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