Wondering if anyone can help me here. Suddenly getting this error using Gradle 5.2.1 (no recent changes to gradle configuration) when accessing artifacts from maven central:
[Fatal Error] jackson-datatype-jsr310-2.10.5.pom:1:44: Content is not allowed in prolog.
[Fatal Error] jackson-module-parameter-names-2.10.5.pom:1:44: Content is not allowed in prolog.
[Fatal Error] jackson-datatype-jdk8-2.10.5.pom:1:44: Content is not allowed in prolog.
[Fatal Error] jackson-databind-2.10.5.pom:1:44: Content is not allowed in prolog.
“Content is not allowed in prolog” is an error that occurs when trying to parse xml that is not valid xml. Perhaps there’s a proxy in between Gradle and Maven Central which is returning some garbage instead of the pom
Thanks for the response. This got me investigating further and I found the issue. Was a problem with one of the configured external maven repos which had upgraded versions of nexus. After removing that repo, the error went away.