No way to configure maven version in actions/setup-java

Description:
Maven @3.9.0 introduced plugin breakage. And I don't see a way I can use a particular version of maven with setup-java GitHub Actions. So, can you provide information on how to use/configure a particular version when I use actions/setup-java in a GitHub pipeline? For reference look at this Maven changelog

Task version:
v1 v2 v3 (All versions)

Platform:

Ubuntu
macOS
Windows

Runner type:

Hosted
Self-hosted

Repro steps:
Try to use a maven plugin in your pom.xml. And when running it using maven@3.9.0, it fails to download that plugin.

Expected behavior:
A way to configure a particular version of maven in actions/setup-java@v*

Actual behavior:

@ichinna

Hi, @ichinna 👋 Thanks for the issue, we will take a look at it and get back to you with updates.

+1 on this as it is a regular occurrence that maven minor updates does break things faster than plugin can get updates.

There is already some discussion here: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/49001

This issue here seems to be a duplicate of #40

#40 indicates maven is not being provided by setup-java thus they won't add config for it ? Not following how that works.

As a workaround, I've switched to using https://github.com/s4u/setup-maven-action. Here's an example:

      - name: Setup Maven Action
        uses: s4u/setup-maven-action@v1.7.0
        with:
          checkout-fetch-depth: 0
          java-version: 8
          java-distribution: temurin
          maven-version: 3.8.7

I don't think setup-java should set up Maven.

But perhaps you would like to consider using https://maven.apache.org/wrapper/ and fixing the Maven version your project requires in a maven-wrapper.properties file, and then launching run: ./mvnw instead of mvn?

Hello everyone. Thank you for your report. Unfortunately we're not planing to add configuration options for Maven to setup-java. The solution can be to use community action to change Maven version or use Maven Wrapper. Maven version was changed to 3.8.7 on images. For now I'm going to close the issue.

workaround?

Abrir

Remove Java 8 GH action build

Any hope it gets fixed, if you consider the java version is important, maven is likely on the same kind of prerequisite and using none official actions is never nice?

side note: wrapper is indeed not an option (pollutes the project, requires more work for matrix testing + no real reason since it is a runner responsability to setup the right tool when using this kind of action IMHO).

Use s4u/setup-maven-action instead

There is another way to configure which maven you should be used for the build https://github.com/marketplace/actions/setup-maven

- uses: stCarolas/setup-maven@v5
  with:
    maven-version: 3.9.9

uses: stCarolas/setup-maven@v5

I would be very carefully evaluating that fork, before using it, if I were you.

There is also https://github.com/sdkman/sdkman-action as an alternative.

@Mailaender

@Mailaender sdkman is not great cause versions are not immutable and can be deleted anytime so better to not use it on CI in favor of a central based impl.

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