This is follow up post of How to get all the specified jars mentioned in the pom.xml and transitively dependent jars?
Except that I am looking to download the source of the both dependent and transitively dependent jars to custom mentioned location.
I have tried following command but it didn't works.
mvn dependency:sources -DoutputDirectory=.../
It didn't worked.
mvn dependency:sources dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=.../
It didn't worked.
The source jar is normally available via Maven using a classifier, so that for the same Maven coordinates (GAV, groupId, artifactId, version) you can have more than one artefact related to the same build (i.e. default application/library jar, sources jar, test sources jar, javadoc jar, etc.), as also explained in another SO answer. The standard classifier for sources is sources
, created by the Maven Source Plugin.
The copy-dependencies can be configured to fetch a certain classifier via the classifier
option.
So in your case, to get the sources of your dependencies to an external folder, you can invoke the command as following:
mvn dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=somewhere -Dclassifier=sources
Note the additional -Dclassifier=sources
option.
An example of pom configuration to achieve the same is also explained in the official documentation of the Dependency Plugin, using the following snippet:
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>src-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<!-- use copy-dependencies instead if you don't want to explode the sources -->
<goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<classifier>sources</classifier>
<failOnMissingClassifierArtifact>false</failOnMissingClassifierArtifact>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/sources</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
</project>
Beware though that Maven doesn't know about sources, it only knows about artefacts. So if the sources (classified) artefact is not available via its GAV+C, Maven will find it and as such will not download any source.