Resolving maven dependencies at runtime during plugin execution

Question

I have a maven plugin that checks some dependencies. Those dependencies at unknown at first, so I can't add them to the pom file. Thus, I need a way to resolve dependencies at runtime during the plugin execution given the artifactId and the groupId.

There's a lack of proper documentation on the goal we are trying to achieve.

Answer 1

You can use Maven resolver API.

Example code of maven plugin in Resolver project:

https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/blob/master/maven-resolver-demos/maven-resolver-demo-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/resolver/examples/maven/ResolveArtifactMojo.java