Can't create a project from an archetype-catalog.xml

Question

I'm trying to use my own project template, but when I perform the command:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local

I got the following message:

 [INFO] No archetype defined. Using maven-archetype-quickstart (org.apache.maven.
archetypes:maven-archetype-quickstart:1.0)
Choose archetype:
   Your filter doesn't match any archetype (hint: enter to return to initial list)
Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case-sensitive contains): :

I tried many possible solutions that I found here, but I did not succeed ...

My steps:
- I created a project in eclipse
-Then I went to root directory of this project and performed the following command in prompt:

mvn archetype:create-from-project

and had BUILD SUCCESS.

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Then I performed the following command on project's folder

mvn install

and had BUILD SUCCESS

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I checked the .m2 folder, and the archetpe-catalog.xml was there:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<archetype-catalog xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/archetype-catalog/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/archetype-catalog-1.0.0.xsd"
    xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/archetype-catalog/1.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <archetypes>
    <archetype>
      <groupId>io.openbdt</groupId>
      <artifactId>framework-openbdt</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
      <description>framework-openbdt</description>
    </archetype>
  </archetypes>
</archetype-catalog>

In maven's documentation explains that default path of archetypeCatalog=local is path/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml but on debug (mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local -X), maven search the xml file in path/.m2/repository/archetype-catalog.xml

Note: These steps were typically performed in my notebook, but on my desktop I was unsuccessful. Then I created a new user on the notebook and it also didn't work anymore.

Can anyone help me, please?

Answer 1

I have the exact same problem and reproduced it with Maven versions 3.3.9 and 3.5.2. Probably something is inconsistent in how mvn install and mvn archetype:generate handle processing archetype-catalog.xml.

Because nothing helped for me as well, I created a soft-link:

ln -s PATH/TO/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml PATH/TO/.m2/repository/archetype-catalog.xml

This made the trick for me. Unfortunately, this works only for unix-like systems.

Answer 2

Maven 3.5.2 is inconsistent location between read and write.

When set localRepository in settings.xml, mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local command reads ${localRepository}/archetype-catalog.xml .

When without localRepository setting, that command reads ~/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml .

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mvn archetype:update-local-catalog command creates ~/.m2/archetype-catalog.xml with maven-archetype-plugin v2.4.

That command creates ${localRepository}/archetype-catalog.xml with v3.0.1 .

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refs: [ARCHETYPE-529] Maven archetype:generate does not find local archetypes in interactive mode - ASF JIRA