Maven shade plugin adding dependency-reduced-pom.xml to base directory
The maven shade plugin is creating a file called dependency-reduced-pom.xml and also artifactname-shaded.jar and placing them in the base directory.
Is this a bug? Should be in the target directory. Any workaround?
Solution 1:
You can avoid having it created by setting createDependencyReducedPom
to false.
e.g.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-shade-plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
</configuration>
....
....
</plugin>
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Solution 2:
Based on bmargulies' answer and his comment on Xv.'s answer, I decided to configure the dependency-reduced POM to be output to target/
, which is already ignored in my VCS.
To do that, I just added the dependencyReducedPomLocation
element to the configuration
element of the plugin, i.e.
<configuration>
<dependencyReducedPomLocation>${project.build.directory}/dependency-reduced-pom.xml</dependencyReducedPomLocation>
(...)
</configuration>
Solution 3:
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-121, and also https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHADE-124.
There is an option to move the d-r-p to elsewhere, but you may not like the consequences.
You are wrong about the -shaded jar, it always ends up in target/ unless you move it elsewhere.
Solution 4:
You could use an old version of the plugin. Version 1.7 of the maven-shade-plugin writes to /target.
Since version 1.7.1, dependency-reduced pom.xml is written to basedir. See the issue MSHADE-124 for some reasons why it was done and what the consequences are. If you try setting dependencyReducedPomLocation, you will likely run into problems generating the site - open issue MSHADE-145.