[rules-users] "Cannot find KieModule" with kieServices.newKieContainer() with LATEST or RELEASE instead of explicit version number (eg: 0.0.1)

[Matteo Mortari]

Hello,
in the hope this could save time if someone has been experiencing same
issue. Drools 6.0.1.Final

I had message "Cannot find KieModule" with kieServices.newKieContainer()
with LATEST or RELEASE , instead of explicit version number (eg: 0.0.1) on
a application where the KIE module Rule artifact project kjar has been
locally-installed from remote Maven repository, that is the right hand side
of this diagram:
http://docs.jboss.org/drools/release/6.0.1.Final/drools-docs/html_single/#d0e933

Meaning that before launching Application, I performed
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:get
-Dartifact=com.acme:X:LATEST -DrepoUrl=
http://nexus-hostname/nexus/content/repositories/releases/

Then:
kieServices.newKieContainer() with LATEST,
kieServices.newKieContainer() with RELEASE,

failed with stack trace:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find
KieModule: com.acme:X:RELEASE
        at
org.drools.compiler.kie.builder.impl.KieServicesImpl.newKieContainer(KieServicesImpl.java:86)
        at (...)

But kieServices.newKieContainer() with a fixed version, eg.: 0.0.2 did
indeed worked OK, if installed in the local .m2 repository.

To avoid this issue, I found only 3 possible workarounds
1 use mvn maven-dependency-plugin:go-offline but did not work all of the
time
2 manually ensure maven-metadata-local.xml file is generate in local .m2
repository
3 just download manually .jar and .pom of the remote maven repo, and then
install with mvn install:install-file

In this case, of workaround kieServices.newKieContainer()  works OK with
all the version LATEST, RELEASE, and fixed version number.

Raise jira DROOLS-419 with more details and example projects, please don't
hate me if was just me missing something or not-Drools issue actually
=P
In my defense I had good intentions saving somebody's else time in case
same strange behavior, which is really strange because to me it worked only
with explicit fixed version number, and that was really bizarre ;)

Hope this helps,
Ciao
MM
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