Google gdata library and maven
Despite a number of requests from a variety of users, there are as-yet no
official maven versions of Google’s gdata client Java
library. There are various
scripts to push the .jar
files into a local repo, and one project on Google
code containing an older
version of the client library, mavenized. I think it’s up to the code
maintainers (Google) to put a process in place for pushing official maven
versions of the gdata .jars
out to the public repos. In the meantime, the
best we can hope for is to load into local repos. However, a problem with the
scripts I’ve seen is that they bake-in the various versions of the libraries to
the script. So here’s my variant, which takes the artifact name and version
from the .jar
filename:
#!/bin/bash
for f in java/lib/*.jar
do
if [[ $f =~ java/lib/gdata-([a-z-]*)-(.*)\.jar ]]; then
n=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
v=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
echo "installing mvn artifact $n $v"
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.google.gdata \
-DartifactId=$n -Dversion=$v -Dfile=$f -Dpackaging=jar \
-DgeneratePom=true
fi
done
Tested on my Linux system at home, but I’m expecting this to also run on Windows/cygwin when I get into the office tomorrow!
Update Thanks to ildella on Twitter for pointing out that there’s a maintained, up-to-date collection of maven-ized gdata artifacts on googlecode.