Maven update-local-catalogue works but not creating file archetype-catalog.xml

[Boltzmann]

I use Intellij for development. Following the quick start guide I get no warning or error right clicking the pom.xml of odata-jpa-archetype-spring or following the guides command line ansatz. However, I do not get a archetype-catalog.xml whether with WSL2 on Windows 11 or Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS both in the terminal or using Intellij Community or Ultimate. E.g. in the Ubuntu 22 bash mvn --version gives

Java version: 17, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /home/username/.sdkman/candidates/java/17-open
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "5.15.0-43-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

The text in QuickStart.md states

Open a shell, like the Windows console, navigate to the directory the repository had been cloned to and then to odata-jpa-archetype-spring. Starting from the home directory this could be e.g. cd git\olingo-jpa-processor-v4\jpa-archetype\odata-jpa-archetype-spring. We do that to generate the archetype. This is done by execute mvn clean install archetype:update-local-catalog. Alternatively you can also use your IDE:
...
In your .m2 directory there should be a file called archetype-catalog.xml:

Without this I cannot choose the jpa archetype in the next step.

[esajic-ct]

I have a similar problem. I'm using Maven 3.3.9 and Java 1.8. This is what I've done so far:

• Cloned the repo using git clone https://github.com/SAP/olingo-jpa-processor-v4
• changed dir to cd olingo-jpa-processor-v4\jpa-archetype\odata-jpa-archetype-spring
• I then needed to give a version number to the maven compiler plugin in odata-jpa-archetype-spring/pom.xml because otherwise it refused to build - I used version 3.8.0 eg:

             <plugin>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                 <version>3.8.0</version>
                 <configuration>
                     <source>${project.build.source}</source>
                     <target>${project.build.source}</target>

• After I applied that patch mvn clean install archetype:update-local-catalog built OK for me but I had no archetype-catalog.xml file anywhere in my (user home)/.m2 folder or its subfolders
• I then ran mvn.cmd archetype:crawl which generated me a (user home)/.m2/repository/archetype-catalog.xml and that included the odata archetype I built in the earlier steps

    <archetype>
      <groupId>com.sap.olingo</groupId>
      <artifactId>odata-jpa-archetype-spring</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <description>${rootArtifactId}-parent</description>
    </archetype>

• Now when I try to run the archetype:generate command in Maven to generate a new project using the archetype it can find it in the local repo but then, instead of using the local one, it seems to be going to the remote and failing.

This is the command I'm running:

mvn.cmd archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local -DarchetypeGroupId=com.sap.olingo -DarchetypeArtifactId=odata-jpa-archetype-spring -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.9-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=trippin -Dpunit=Trippin -Dschema=Trippin -Dentity-table=Person -Dvalue-object-table=Trip -DinteractiveMode=false

Initially it says

Archetype repository not defined. Using the one from [com.sap.olingo:odata-jpa-archetype-spring:1.0.9-SNAPSHOT] found in catalog local

but then later attempts to download from the remote, and fails with this message:

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:3.2.1:generate (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: The desired archetype does not exist (com.sap.olingo:odata-jpa-archetype-spring:1.0.9-SNAPSHOT)

So I am unable to use the Archetype to generate a project.

[esajic-ct]

I have now got a workaround for this issue - follow the instructions in my previous comment above and then you also need to perform the archetype install process on the olingo-jpa-processor-v4\jpa-archetype\ folder.

Here are the extra steps needed:

cd olingo-jpa-processor-v4\jpa-archetype\

# Install the jpa-archetype in your local m2 repo
# It appears this is a parent of the odata-jpa-archetype-spring archetype
# and needs to be present for odata-jpa-archetype-spring to work properly
mvn.cmd clean install archetype:update-local-catalog

# Regenerate the archetype-catalog.xml
mvn.cmd archetype:crawl

# Contents of (user home)\.m2\repository\archetype-catalog.xml
# don't change after regeneration.
# The only com.sap.olingo archetype is this one still:
    <archetype>
      <groupId>com.sap.olingo</groupId>
      <artifactId>odata-jpa-archetype-spring</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <description>${rootArtifactId}-parent</description>
    </archetype>
    

 cd ..\..\
 
# Maven archetype:generate command should now work successfully
# and create a project folder called trippin underneath the folder you're in 
# when you run the command.

 mvn.cmd archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local -DarchetypeGroupId=com.sap.olingo -DarchetypeArtifactId=odata-jpa-archetype-spring -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.9-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=com.example -DartifactId=trippin -Dpunit=Trippin -Dschema=Trippin -Dentity-table=Person -Dvalue-object-table=Trip -DinteractiveMode=false

[Boltzmann]

I was able to follow above steps by @esajic-ct . However, in my environment I get the messages from post #162 (comment).
[...]
Done the other steps of #162 (comment) too, but am still getting above messages. So the workaround does not work here.

The workaround produces the desired folder structure trippin.

[damian-fernandez-southern]

I was running under the same issue too, and following @esajic-ct I was able to get further, but then I am getting the next error:

JDK: 17
Maven: 3.8.7

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1.106 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2023-02-02T16:44:15+01:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:3.2.1:generate (default-cli) on project hello: Unable to add module to the current project as it is not of packaging type 'pom' -> [Help 1]

[spanky440]

Some related quick-start experiences:

• prior to update-local-catalog step I had to build the project located in jpa directory (artifacts are not available in maven central)

  mvn clean install
  

• to let unit tests succeed, I had to add one line to the jpa/pom.xml surefire-plugin configuration (my local system's language is german)

  <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      [...]
      <argLine>-Duser.language=en</argLine>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>