Install task vs uploadArchives task: location and checksum issues

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I’m a newbie to Gradle and use it on a first project. What I don’t get is the difference between the task ‘install’ and the task ‘uploadArchives’ assuming that both are task from the maven plugin… Here is my gradle.build:

apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply from: 'file:///g:/Development/Netkernel/gradle-commons/netkernel-libs.gradle' // NetKernel libs
apply plugin: 'maven'
apply plugin: 'java'
  //Define the project group in which built modules are stored in the repository.
project.group = 'nkse-panel-security'
  //Provide this buildscript with repositories and dependencies to obtain the netkernel plugin
buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "file:///G:/Maven/m2/repository/"
}
    }
}
  // This task puts the resulting jar files into a local maven repository
uploadArchives {
    repositories {
        mavenDeployer {
          repository(url: "file:///G:/Maven/m2/repository/")
        }
    }
}
  //The repository where we'll get the deployed modules from
repositories {
    maven {
        url "file:///G:/Maven/m2/repository/"
    }
}
  dependencies {
 compile libraries.netkernel_core
 compile libraries.netkernel_modules_core
}

The file c:\Users\Stefan.m2\settings.xml has the entry

<localRepository>G:/Maven/m2/repository</localRepository><\code>
  <code>gradle install

results in the jar put at the correct location (‘G:\Maven\m2\repository’) and the pom file created.

gradle uploadArchives

results in the jar put in the correct location and unwanted in ‘c:\Users\Stefan.m2\repository’, the pom file created and checksum files (md5, sha1).

But how can I achieve my desired result: Only correct location (‘G:\Maven\m2\repository’) and checksum files?

Thanks in advance, Stefan

------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 2.3 ------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:

2015-02-16 05:09:33 UTC Build number: none Revision:

586be72bf6e3df1ee7676d1f2a3afd9157341274

Groovy:

2.3.9 Ant:

Apache Ant™ version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013 JVM:

1.8.0_31 (Oracle Corporation 25.31-b07) OS:

Windows 7 6.1 amd64

2

In your case, there is no difference. But if you were using a local Maven repo, say one configure internally using Apache Archiva or a similar server, uploadArchives would be set to put your builds there (as in the example below).

ext {
  localRepo = "http://sourcesrv:8080/repository/devel.internal/"
}
...
apply plugin: 'maven'
uploadArchives {
  repositories {
    mavenDeployer {
      repository(url: project.ext.localRepo) {
        authentication(userName: repoUserName, password: repoPassword)
      }
      pom.version = 'version'
      pom.groupId = 'group'
      pom.artifactId = 'artifact'
    }
  }
}
$ gradle install
 # to my local gradle cache
$ gradle uploadArchives
# to my workgroup's internal Apache Archiva server

I’ve not tried to set up install to point to ~/.m2/repository

3

Thanks for the answer Thad!

Difference is that the install task creates no checksums and the uploadArchives tasks installs twice. One time at the configured location and one time at ~/.m2/repository which I don’t want and didn’t configure knowingly. There a pom called ‘maven-metadata-remote.xml’ is created, maybe this helps why this install is done.

Thanks,

Stefan

4

Found the cause of my problem:

The task uploadArchives takes M2_HOME\conf\settings.xml into consideration. As I have no maven server installed, M2_HOME was not set, so I set it pointing to ~.m2\repository and inside added conf\settings.xml.

Now uploadArchives deploys only to the desired location and creates the checksums.

Stefan