I use swagger to generate web services clients on my project. The generated code produce a library that can be use as a Maven lib. I already successfully deploy release version into my private sonatype-nexus.
I wonder what is the difference between altDeploymentRepository and altReleaseDeploymentRepository? How mvn deploy select which repository to use if the two parameters are set?
As the apache-maven deploy documentation said :
altDeploymentRepository: Specifies an alternative repository to which the project artifacts should be deployed ( other than those specified in ).
Format: id::layout::url
altReleaseDeploymentRepository: The alternative repository to use when the project has a final version.
altSnapshotDeploymentRepository: The alternative repository to use when the project has a snapshot version.
What exactly does
when the project has a final version.
mean?
When altReleaseDeploymentRepository is specified, it is always used when the project has a release (or "final") version, i.e. is not a snapshot version. When altSnapshotDeploymentRepository is specified, it is always used when the project has a snapshot version. altDeploymentRepository is a default alternate deployment repository when none of the above repository were specified or used.
So to put it another way, if you have a release version, then:
altReleaseDeploymentRepository will be used if specified;- otherwise
altDeploymentRepository will be used if specified;
- otherwise the release remote repository declared in the
<distributionManagement><repository> POM element will be used if specified;
- otherwise the plugin will error because it didn't find any remote repository to deploy to.
Similarly, if you have a snapshot version, then:
altSnapshotDeploymentRepository will be used if specified;- otherwise
altDeploymentRepository will be used if specified;
- otherwise the snapshot remote repository declared in the
<distributionManagement><snapshotRepository> POM element will be used if specified;
- otherwise the release remote repository declared in the
<distributionManagement><repository> POM element will be used if specified;
- otherwise the plugin will error because it didn't find any remote repository to deploy to.
