Is there a way to use a local maven repo

[capezzbr]

Basically, I'd like to replicate what is possible on Gradle via

repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    maven {
        // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
        url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
    }
}

So far I've tried

maven_install(
    artifacts = [
        "com.facebook.react:react-native:0.63.3",
    ],
    repositories = [
        "file:///Users/bruno/repo/node_modules/react-native/android",
    ],
)

and

android_library(
    name = "main_application",
    srcs = [
        "MainActivity.java",
        "MainApplication.java",
    ],
    manifest = "AndroidManifest.xml",
    resource_files = glob(["res/**"]),
    deps = [
        "@maven//:com_facebook_react_react_native",
    ],
)

but it doesn't seem to be working, and I am getting this error

(14:46:46) ERROR: [...] depends on @maven//:com_facebook_react_react_native in repository @maven which failed to fetch. no such package '@maven//': Only artifacts downloaded over http(s) are supported: com.facebook.react:react-native:0.63.3

[cheister]

I'm not sure coursier has a way to add local maven repositories for fetching artifacts. They added a m2local option with https://github.com/coursier/coursier/issues/667 but that does not allow arbitrary directories to be maven repositories.

[capezzbr]

I see, thanks for the input. This is what I have so far.

I've copied the local maven repo content under ~/.m2/repository, so that I have this directory structure:

and then added the dependency as

load("@rules_jvm_external//:specs.bzl", "maven")

maven_install(
    artifacts = [
        "com.facebook.react:react-native:0.63.3",
    ],
    use_unsafe_shared_cache = True,
    repositories = [
        maven.repository(
            "file:///Users/bruno/.m2/repository",
        ),
        ...
    ],
)

which errors out as

(11:27:18) ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'maven':
   Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "/private/var/tmp/_bazel_bruno/d1d8f433d513598595adb098f4928314/external/rules_jvm_external/coursier.bzl", line 784, column 66, in _coursier_fetch_impl
		artifact.update({"file": _relativize_and_symlink_file(repository_ctx, artifact["file"])})
	File "/private/var/tmp/_bazel_bruno/d1d8f433d513598595adb098f4928314/external/rules_jvm_external/coursier.bzl", line 114, column 13, in _relativize_and_symlink_file
		fail("Error while trying to parse the path of file in the coursier cache: " + absolute_path)
Error in fail: Error while trying to parse the path of file in the coursier cache: /Users/bruno/.m2/repository/com/facebook/react/react-native/0.63.3/react-native-0.63.3.aar

[nkoroste]

@capezzbr did you manage to find a working solution for this?

[tokudu]

See the above PR #532, which fixes the issue. @jin let me know what you think.