maven repository credential settings does not work (or missing correct example)

[waffel]

Description of the problem / feature request:

I try to use a maven repository which is protected with username and password. I got the tip that I may use the settings from coursier project. But also the documentation from this project has not helped me to solve the problem.

The only thing (which is ugly from a security point of view) is to set the username/password direct in the repositories definition like https://username:[email protected] in the WORKSPACE file (and check this file into git).

Can you give a clean example of what to do to setup correct the credentials for a maven repository? It would be fine to use credentials.properties file or using environment variable COURSIER_CREDENTIALS or setup something in .bazelrc file.

Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

Using protected maven repositories.

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

Using a username/ password protected repository to download maven dependencies with bazel.

I have tried to following things (all them do not work):

• create a credentials.properties file under C:\Users\myUser.config\coursier\credentials.properties
• put something like this into the file: username=YYYY password=XXXXX host=https://my.protected.io/nexus/content/groups/public auto=true
• try to download the maven dependencies (now I get unauthorized errors)

The next thing I tried like from another issue https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/issues/80 is to setup maven user name and password through .bazelrc file ... this fails also.

I tried also using coursier environment variable like this:

• env$:COURSIER_CREDENTIALS='my.protected.io username:password'

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Windows 10

What's the output of bazel info release?

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If bazel info release returns "development version" or "(@non-git)", tell us how you built Bazel.

release 1.0.0