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Bug 333876

Summary: Maven Repository View will not show me contents of Nexus Repository
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Steve Cohen <scohen>
Component: m2eAssignee: Project Inbox <m2e.ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED NOT_ECLIPSE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: igor, rseddon
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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screen shot of maven repo view. none

Description Steve Cohen CLA 2011-01-10 10:24:01 EST 
Build Identifier: Version: 3.6.1 Build id: M20100909-0800

I have recently started using a Nexus Repository administered by a service arm of my organization.

All my passwords and permissions have been set up in my settings.xml and
settings-security.xml have been set up correctly, as far as I can tell.
These permit me to deploy to the repository from the maven command line
using mvn deploy, as well as, of course, to read from the repository.

However, in the m2eclipse "Maven Repositories" view, I can never see the
contents of the repository.    All I can see is as shown in the attached
screenshot.  And none of the menu options in that view such as "Update
Index", "Rebuild Index", etc. ever allows me to see any more than this.

I have spent some effort with the administrator of this Nexus repository
and she is not able to understand what is happening.  I am apparently
the only user of the Nexus repository known to have this problem.  

This problem was originally present under this configuration:

Eclipse Version: 3.6.0
Build id: I20100608-0911
M2Eclipse build: 0.10.0-20100209-0800

And continues to be present after upgrading to 
Eclipse Version: 3.6.1 Build id: M20100909-0800
M2Eclipse build 0.12.0-20101115-1102 

The problem also persists across the following Maven installations in the Eclipse Windows->Preferences->Maven->Installations:
Embedded 3.0-SNAPSHOT/0.10.0-20100209-0800
Embedded 3.0-SNAPSHOT/0.12.0-20101115-1102 
External Maven 2.2.1
External Maven 3.0.1

 




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Simply start eclipse and expand the repository view under "global repositories"
2. Although the repository itself is seen, only a blank top level folder that cannot be expanded further is shown.
3.
Comment 1 Steve Cohen CLA 2011-01-10 10:25:18 EST 
Created attachment 186395 [details]
screen shot of maven repo view.
Comment 2 Rich Seddon CLA 2011-03-03 18:11:40 EST 
Try scheduling a "Publish Indexes" task under "administration/scheduled tasks" in the Nexus server.  

This task creates an index file that can be downloaded and processed by M2Eclipse.
Comment 3 Steve Cohen CLA 2011-03-04 11:02:14 EST 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Try scheduling a "Publish Indexes" task under "administration/scheduled tasks"
> in the Nexus server.  
> 
> This task creates an index file that can be downloaded and processed by
> M2Eclipse.

Thanks, Rich.

I'm not sure where, i.e. in which Application's UI, this functionality is located.  I don't see it in Eclipse.  In Nexus, I connect to that either through m2eclipse or via a Web interface (Sonatype Nexus™ Professional Edition, Version: 1.8.0.1), that functionality doesn't seem to be available to me, maybe because I'm not an administrator.

Please elaborate.
Comment 4 Rich Seddon CLA 2011-03-04 11:07:12 EST 
Hi Steve,

This needs to be done by a Nexus administrator.

In the Web UI, it is under "administration/scheduled tasks".  

Rich
Comment 5 Igor Fedorenko CLA 2011-08-01 01:05:16 EDT 
I assume the problem was solved on the nexus side. please reopen if still does not work.
Comment 6 Denis Roy CLA 2021-04-19 13:23:40 EDT 
Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/