Access internal maven repo from IVY

Question

Hereabouts, we use a Sonatype Maven repository. This is jolly nice for our maven projetcs, but we have a legacy application that uses Ant+IVY for dependency management which now needs a dep from Maven.

My IVY settings file looks like:

<ivysettings>
    <property name="dsnexus-root" value="http://internal-url/" override="false"/>

    <credentials host="hostname" username="username" passwd="XXXX"/>

    <!-- ... -->

    <resolvers>
        <chain name="shared">
            <url name="shared-default">
                <!-- ... -->
            </url>
            <url name="dsnexus-public" m2compatible="true">
                <artifact pattern="${dsnexus-root}/[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"/>
            </url>
        </chain>
    </resolvers>

    <modules>
        <module organisation=".*" name=".*" resolver="shared"/>
    </modules>

    <!-- ... -->
</ivysettings>

But when I try to resolve my deps it doesn't find anything from the internal repo

e.g.

module not found: xerces#xercesImpl;2.9.1
==== shared-default: tried
...
==== dsnexus-public: tried
-- artifact xerces#xercesImpl;2.9.1!xercesImpl.jar:
http://internal-url/xerces/xercesImpl/2.9.1/xercesImpl-2.9.1.jar

And of course, the dep does exist on that url.

I have also tried

<ibiblio name="dsnexus-public" 
    root="${dsnexus-root}" 
    m2compatible="true" 
    namespace="maven2"/>

and got the same result.

My guess is there is something about the credentials I have got wrong.

Answer 1

I normally use the ibiblio resolver when talking to nexus.

<ibiblio name="reponame" m2compatible="true" root="http://nexus-url/reponame"/&gt;

Answer 2

You should also specify the realm with your credentials, something like this:

<credentials host="hostname" realm="Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager" username="username" passwd="xxx"/>

Answer 3

Here, try this:

<ivysettings>
  <settings defaultResolver="nexus" 
            checkUpToDate="true" />

  <credentials host="localhost" 
           realm="Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager" 
           username="admin"
           passwd="admin123"/>
  <resolvers>
    <ibiblio name="nexus" m2compatible="true" 
             root="http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/groups/public/"/&gt;
    <url name="releases" m2compatible="true">
        <artifact pattern="http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases/[organization]/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"/&gt;
        <ivy pattern="http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases/[organization]/[module]/[revision]/ivy-[revision].xml"/&gt;
    </url> 
  </resolvers>
</ivysettings>

Works perfectly for me with Nexus 1.7.1. Let me know if you have any problems.