Sources from available source JARs not usable

[mgoellnitz]

When showing the "generated source file" I try to use the "Attach Sources..." button.

After pressing "download", the sources get downloaded to the Maven local repository (not the gradle module cache, where the original JARs reside) and the source don't get shown after pressing Ok.

Since the path of the downloaded source is shown when re-opening the dialog, there seems to be a "certain link" between the binaries and the sources, but the source view still shows the generated sources.

Anything I can do about this?

[kelemen]

You should right click on the dependencies node and select "Dowload Sources" instead.

[mgoellnitz]

That doesn't even load any sources-archives.

(Just wiped the few already downloaded ones to discover that.)

[kelemen]

It should unless you have the 'idea' plugin applied and download sources turned off. Do you have a project with which I can reproduce your issue (the issue where "download sources" does not download anything)?

[mgoellnitz]

I don't use idea and don't integrate that plugin in any project. The recent test was done with the very small

https://github.com/mgoellnitz/dinistiq

which is not even a multi-module case. Originally I ran into that problem with the buildSrc of https://github.com/mgoellnitz/tangram.

[kelemen]

The sources of which dependencies do you not see? Though I haven't checked each of them, I'm able to see all what I have tried.

Unrelated to this issue: You can use compileOnly configuration since Gradle 2.12 instead of your optional.

[mgoellnitz]

So there must be some other issue on my side... No idea what that could be since this only happens for gradle based projects. Any idea what could get broken? Any (netbeans) plugin known to break things?

Thanks for the hint. May be I re-think the reason why I chose not to go for compileOnly.

[kelemen]

To be honest, I can't even come up with a (reasonable) theoretical scenario where you can download the dependencies and not the sources given that project. Can you not download any of the sources?

[mgoellnitz]

You mean, anything except downloading the manually... No. I'm thinking of a re-install of Netbeans but this is a rather fresh install, so I'm not sure if it's worth it.

[kelemen]

So you mean, that none of the sources of your dependencies got downloaded? If so, that is indeed very strange. However, I find impossible that reinstalling NB helps because NB has nothing to do with downloading the sources for Gradle project. It is Gradle itself which downloads it (currently, I'm using its idea plugin).

[mgoellnitz]

None of my dependencies got downloaded. Only - as mentioned before - they get downloaded (but not shown) when starting the download from the source code pane. But then, they get downloaded to the maven local repository not the gradle cache. Where should the sources get downloaded to? maven local or gradle cache?

[kelemen]

If you click the "download sources" on the dependencies node (in the project view), then into the Gradle cache. Otherwise, I don't know: I do not do anything explicitly with "Attach Sources".