Grails can't load maven-publisher - grails

Question

I am trying to add maven-publisher to a Grails (2.3.6) plugin like so:
dependencies {
compile 'org.mongodb.morphia:morphia:0.107'
compile ":maven-publisher:0.8.1"
}
When I run grails compile I get:
| Error There was an error loading the BuildConfig: Bad artifact coordinates
:maven-publisher:0.8.1, expected format is <groupId>:<artifactId>[:<extension>[
:<classifier>]]:<version> (Use --stacktrace to see the full trace)
What's going on here?

Answer 1

Do not use the maven-publisher plugin. It's old and deprecated. Use the release plugin - it should already be in your plugin's BuildConfig.groovy. If not, here's how it should look (after removing unnecessary cruft):
grails.project.work.dir = 'target'
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
inherits 'global'
log 'warn'
repositories {
grailsCentral()
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile 'org.mongodb.morphia:morphia:0.107'
}
plugins {
build ':release:3.0.1', ':rest-client-builder:1.0.3', {
export = false
}
}
}
As #dmahapatro said in his comment, jar dependencies go in the dependencies block, and plugin dependencies go in the plugins block.
Note also that you should keep the export = false setting so the plugin is available locally for your use, but doesn't leak into the containing application as an unnecessary transitive dependency.