Offline install of Macros and Applications

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Is there a way to install Macros and Applications (along with all of their dependencies) to a Xwiki instance offline. I was able to get this working with extensions by packaging them to a XIP using maven; however, the process does not work the same because Macros and Applications do not contain .jar files, but rather .xar files.

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The type of extension does not have any impact on XIP packaging, the Standard Flavor XIP contains both types, for example.

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Interesting, I don’t know why I can’t get it to work then. I was using your example that you provided me with for the MediaWiki Extension on Tuesday, but it complains that it can’t find a .jar file. For example if, I am trying to create a XIP for the application-filemanager. I created this pom:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <parent>
    <groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId>
    <artifactId>xwiki-platform-distribution</artifactId>
    <!-- The version of XWiki where the extension is planned to be installed -->
    <version>13.10.7</version>
  </parent>
  <groupId>mygroupid</groupId>
  <artifactId>application-filemanager-xip</artifactId>
  <packaging>xip</packaging>
  <properties>
    <!-- It's expected for some enforcer rules to fail with a dependency that was not designed to be built with this version of XWiki -->
    <xwiki.enforcer.skip>true</xwiki.enforcer.skip>
  </properties>
  <dependencies>
    <!-- The extension to package along with its dependencies-->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.xwiki.contrib.application-filemanager</groupId>
      <artifactId>application-filemanager-ui</artifactId>
      <version>2.0.8</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <build>
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.xwiki.commons</groupId>
          <artifactId>xwiki-commons-tool-extension-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>${commons.version}</version>
          <configuration>
            <coreExtensions>
              <!-- We exclude what is already in the WAR -->
              <coreExtension>
                <groupId>org.xwiki.platform</groupId>
                <artifactId>xwiki-platform-distribution-war-dependencies</artifactId>
                <version>${platform.version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
              </coreExtension>
            </coreExtensions>
          </configuration>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
  </build>
</project>

The warning I get is:

[WARNING] The POM for org.xwiki.contrib.application-filemanager:application-filemanager-ui:jar:2.0.8 is missing, no dependency information available

And then I get this error:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project application-filemanager-xip: Could not resolve dependencies for project mygroupid:application-filemanager-xip:xip:13.10.7: Failure to find org.xwiki.contrib.application-filemanager:application-filemanager-ui:jar:2.0.8 in Index of /groups/public was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of xwiki-releases has elapsed or updates are forced

I’m assuming my issue is that I’m failing to point the pom to the correct artifact/group for the dependency, but I am not sure how to figure that out by looking through GitHub and the sources poms. Any help is much appreciated!

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That’s because you told Maven that application-filemanager-ui is a JAR file (because jar is the default type in Maven), for a XAR you need to indicate <type>xar</type>.

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That will definitely do it. Thanks for your help, apologizes in my lack of knowledge.