Details
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Type:
Bug
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Major
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Resolution: Duplicate
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Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Plugin API
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Labels:None
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Complexity:Intermediate
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Number of attachments :
Description
Take the JAR of the maven-resources-plugin, delete the file META-INF/maven/plugin.xml and run maven. You'll get this error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The PluginDescriptor for the plugin Plugin
[org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin] was not found.
Issue Links
| This issue duplicates: | ||||
| MNG-4057 | Propose checking of plugin artifact when plugin descriptor cannot be found |
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Thanks for the fix in 2.0.10. This one really cost me a lot of nerves 
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Aaron Digulla
added a comment - - edited Thanks for the fix in 2.0.10. This one really cost me a lot of nerves
Technically, this is correct but doesn't really help to locate the root cause of the problem. If maven can't read the plugin.xml file of a plugin, it should abort with an error during the XML parsing step instead of trying to use the plugin anyway.
Real world case: The plugin is downloaded via a proxy and the download aborts before the full file is transferred or the proxy returns a HTML file ("A virus was detected blahblah") instead of the JAR. This can lead to corrupt JARs in the repository which leads to the error above.
PS: Not sure if this is "Plugin API" or "Plugins and Lifecycle". Please feel free to move the error report to the right place.