Overview

This plugin has been superseded by the release plugin and is no longer maintained. The release plugin provides the same features (and more) and is installed by default in Grails 2.0 and above applications

This plugin provides the ability to publish Grails projects and plugins to a local and remote Maven repositories. There are two key additional targets added by the plugin:

• maven-install - Installs a Grails project or plugin into your local Maven cache
• maven-deploy - Deploys a Grails project or plugin to a remote Maven repository

In the case of plugins, the plugin zip file will be deployed, whilst for application the application WAR file will be deployed.

maven-install

The maven-install command will install the Grails project or plugin artifact into your local Maven cache:

grails maven-install

In the case of plugins, the plugin zip file will be installed, whilst for application the application WAR file will be installed.

maven-deploy

The maven-deploy command will deploy a Grails project or plugin into a remote Maven repository:

grails maven-deploy

It is assumed that you have specified the necessary <distributionManagement> configuration within a pom.xml or that you specify the id of the remote repository to deploy to:

grails maven-deploy --repository=myRepo

The repository argument specifies the 'id' for the repository. You need to configure the details of the repository specified by this 'id' within your grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy file or in your USER_HOMER/.grails/settings.groovy file:

grails.project.dependency.distribution = {
     localRepository = "/path/to/my/local"
     remoteRepository(id:"myRepo", url:"http://myserver/path/to/repo")
}

The syntax for configuring remote repositories matches the syntax from the remoteRepository element in the Ant Maven tasks. For example the following XML:

<remoteRepository id="myRepo" url="scp://localhost/www/repository">
      <authentication username="..." privateKey="${user.home}/.ssh/id_dsa"/>
    </remoteRepository>

Can be expressed as:

remoteRepository(id:"myRepo", url:"scp://localhost/www/repository") {
       authentication username:"...", privateKey:"${userHome}/.ssh/id_dsa"
    }

By default the plugin will try to detect the protocol to use from the URL of the repository (ie "http" from "http://.." etc.), however if you need to explicitly specify a different protocol you can do:

grails maven-deploy --repository=myRepo --protocol=webdav

The available protocols are:

• http
• scp
• scpexe
• ftp
• webdav

Groups, Artifacts and Versions

Maven defines the notion of a 'groupId', 'artifactId' and a 'version'. This plugin pulls this information from the Grails project conventions or plugin descriptor.

Projects

For applications this plugin will use the Grails application name and version provided by Grails when generating the pom.xml file. To change the version you can run the set-version command:

grails set-version 0.2

The Maven groupId will be the same as the project name, unless you specify a different one in Config.groovy:

grails.project.groupId="com.mycompany"

Plugins

With a Grails plugin the groupId and version are taken from the following properties in the *GrailsPlugin.groovy descriptor:

String groupId = 'myOrg'
String version = '0.1'

The 'artifactId' is taken from the plugin name. For example if you have a plugin called FeedsGrailsPlugin the artifactId will be "feeds". If your plugin does not specify a groupId then this defaults to "org.grails.plugins".