[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (FORGE-847) Add an option to the DependencyResolver to resolve a single artifact (no version range)

[James Perkins (JIRA)]

James Perkins created FORGE-847:
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             Summary: Add an option to the DependencyResolver to resolve a single artifact (no version range)
                 Key: FORGE-847
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE-847
             Project: Forge
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Maven Integration
            Reporter: James Perkins


Currently {{org.jboss.forge.project.dependencies.DependencyResolver}} only has a option to return a list of dependencies. This results in version range query which requires the repository to have a {{maven-metadata.xml}} file. It would be useful to have something like:
{code:jave}
public DependencyResource resolveArtifact(Dependency dependency)
{code}

This would allow for a specific version to be looked up. It also would have better performance when a dependency version is defined.

Currently using a repository that does not have metadata files does not work. For example http://maven.repository.redhat.com/earlyaccess/all/ cannot be used due to this issue. Which means no EAP dependencies cannot be downloaded from a Forge plugin.

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