JavaInfo value has no field or method 'transitive_exports' when upgrading to Bazel 5.x+

[ivanempire]

Hi-Diddly-Ho, rules_jvm_external developers! We're seeing a build failure with Bazel version 5+ with a missing field in JavaInfo. Everything works fine with Bazel 4.2.1, the pinned version in this repo, but the upgrade causes the build to fail.

Information

Running our build on the older version of Bazel works as expected: bazel run --define "maven_repo=file://$HOME/.m2/repository" //java/main/java/org/odict:odict.publish, and everything gets published, however, when upgrading we get:

ERROR: /Users/imelnikov/Documents/dev/odict/java/main/java/org/odict/BUILD.bazel:4:12: in maven_project_jar rule //java/main/java/org/odict:odict-project: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "/private/var/tmp/_bazel_imelnikov/d792e4c95a32b3f00d6ffc5d5ab946f1/external/rules_jvm_external/private/rules/maven_project_jar.bzl", line 52, column 36, in _maven_project_jar_impl
		targets = [] + target[JavaInfo].transitive_exports.to_list()
Error: 'JavaInfo' value has no field or method 'transitive_exports'
Available attributes: annotation_processing, api_generating_plugins, compilation_info, compile_jars, full_compile_jars, java_outputs, outputs, plugins, runtime_output_jars, source_jars, transitive_compile_time_jars, transitive_deps, transitive_native_libraries, transitive_runtime_deps, transitive_runtime_jars, transitive_source_jars
ERROR: /Users/imelnikov/Documents/dev/odict/java/main/java/org/odict/BUILD.bazel:4:12: Analysis of target '//java/main/java/org/odict:odict-project' failed
ERROR: Analysis of target '//java/main/java/org/odict:odict.publish' failed; build aborted:

This happens because, from what we can tell, that field no longer exists in the latest versions of Bazel: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/4.2.0/skylark/lib/JavaInfo.html#transitive_exports https://docs.bazel.build/versions/5.1.0/skylark/lib/JavaInfo.html#transitive_exports <-- he's dead, Jim

I'd be happy to take a look at this and see if this can be fixed, couldn't find anything useful in Bazel's release notes. Thanks!

Our macro, for helpful reference:

java_export(
    name = "odict",
    maven_coordinates = "{}:{}:{}.{}.{}".format(maven["group"], maven["artifact"], version["major"], version["minor"], version["patch"]),
    resources = ["//java/main/cpp:libodict.so"],
    visibility = ["//java:__pkg__"],
    srcs = glob(["**/*.java"]),
    deps = [
        "//schema/java",
        "@native_utils",
        "@odict_java_deps//:com_fasterxml_jackson_core_jackson_annotations",
        "@odict_java_deps//:com_fasterxml_jackson_core_jackson_core",
        "@odict_java_deps//:com_fasterxml_jackson_core_jackson_databind",
        "@odict_java_deps//:org_xerial_snappy_snappy_java",
    ],
)

[jin]

Which version of RJE are you using? This was fixed in https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/pull/557