Artifact downloading

Artifact downloading is the process of making the Maven artifacts available for the build execution in the build file system. The task will localize the artifacts and copy them in the build file system for use. This usually entails that the artifacts will be copied in the build directory.

The task taskes a list of artifacts as its input:

saker.maven.download(
	Artifacts: [
		"junit:junit:4.12",
		"org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.19"
	]
)

Note that the task doesn't perform any dependency resolution. In order to do that, you can use the saker.maven.resolve() task as follows:

saker.maven.download(
	Artifacts: saker.maven.resolve([
		"junit:junit:4.12",
		"org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.19"
	])
)

While the first example doesn't include the dependencies, the latter will have the org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.3 dependent artifact downloaded as well.