How do I use checked-in jars with leiningen

Question

We have some 3rd-party jars checked-in to our project. We'd like to add them to the classpath. That's it. We don't want to set up a local maven repo (because that would break our 'check out and run' philosophy). Each developer would have to set up their own maven repo, distinct from the project.

Is there a way to do this or is this? Most of the answers I've seen say to set up a local maven which we don't want or need just to add a jar to a classpath.

Answer 1

You will need to setup a local maven repository, but that can be a simple directory, in your project directory, that you then check in to source control. (Which will maintain your 'check out and run' policy)

As of Leiningen 2.2.0 the functionality to deploy jars is built-in with the lein deploy task. So, the task has simplified from previous versions.

Create a directory inside your project called, in this example, myrepo. (The name is arbitrary)

Add a :repositories entry in your project.clj file with a path to the local directory you created.

:repositories [["localrepo1" "file:myrepo"]]

Deploy your free floating jar to the repo.

lein deploy localrepo1 com.blueant/fancypants 1.0.1 fancypants.jar

And, add your dependency to your project.clj :dependencies vector as normal.

:dependencies [[com.blueant/fancypants "1.0.1"]]

The deploy task will generate the checksums and directory structure required to to tie into the lein dependency resolution. You can verify your jar is loaded correctly with the lein deps :tree command.

Note: File paths in :repositories are formatted as URLs. So, /Users/user1/Desktop is file:///Users/user1/Desktop, and, a local directory within the project, myrepo is file:myrepo.