Hi All, is there a way to fetch sources and java-docs with

jvm_artifact

?

Not my general area of expertise, but FWIW I don't see support for Maven-style classifiers in the target type, but I do see it in the underlying coursier resolver handling code.

This is only for IDE purpose. when you navigate through project you want to have sources for libraries. It shouldn't be very difficult to add this functionality since coursier can do it.

How would you expect this to work from a user perspective? What command would you expect to run to download these, and where should they go? (I suspect they should go to

dist

, so maybe this is an

export

subcommand?)

similarly to bazel rule I would expect that you have configuration that indicates whether or not you would like to fetch sources and/or java-docs.

maven_install(
    artifacts = [
        "junit:junit:4.12",
        "androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.1.1",
        "org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:1.3",
    ],
    repositories = [
        # Private repositories are supported through HTTP Basic auth
        "<http://username:password@localhost:8081/artifactory/my-repository>",
        "<https://maven.google.com>",
        "<https://repo1.maven.org/maven2>",
    ],
    fetch_sources = True
)

I'm completely new to pants so right now to pull deps in my toy project I use

pants generate-lockfiles

so I would expect that when I update my dependencies sources are fetched too (at best effort because some libraries do not export them). Ideally sources should be stored next to the lib files so when you import your project with BSP to intellij and navigate to class from external jar when you click choose sources it should be right there. obviously sources for external libs should not be included in final package.

That bazel rule runs when you invoke ... something on the command line. Something has to trigger that fetch. What would you want that to be? Is it a byproduct of downloading the binary deps? Or is there an explicit command to export these?

as I said I'm running this command to get result probably this is suboptimal way because I don't know pants at all. In bazel I use specific command/goals to pull deps and generate lock file so it will be fine too. I run it from command line.