String url = "${repository.url}/${project.group.replaceAll('\\.','/')}/${getProjectName(project)}/maven-metadata.xml"
GPathResult metadata = xmlSlurper.parseText(url.toURL().text)
latestReleaseVersion = metadata.versioning.release
Use connection parameters in Groovy with URL getText()
04 November 2014
A while back, I wrote a Gradle plugin that would query the Maven metadata for an artifact in order to automatically determine the next version number for a sub-model artifact in a project. To do so, I used the following code to retrieve and parse the Maven XML metadata:
The above code works great, until you run it in a scenario where you cannot connect to the URL provided by the repository. When this happens, the code
waits a long time to determine that the connection cannot be established (as it is using the URL defaults provided by Java for the connection and read
timeouts). To make this fail faster in the scenarios, I followed some pointers provided by Mr. Haki:
String url = "${repository.url}/${project.group.replaceAll('\\.','/')}/${getProjectName(project)}/maven-metadata.xml"
GPathResult metadata = xmlSlurper.parseText(url.toURL().getText(connectTimetout: TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(10), readTimeout: TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(60))))
latestReleaseVersion = metadata.versioning.releaseAs of Groovy 1.8.1, you can pass the underlying URLConnection’s parameters to the `getText method. In the example above, we have passed both the connectTimeout
and readTimeout to the getText method to control when the connection will give up. This ensures that the code will now fail faster in those offline scenarios.