Upgrading external plugins to 7.3.1 fails

[spinscale]

This looks somewhat similar to #45073

Elasticsearch version (bin/elasticsearch --version): 7.3.1

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:

Running ./gradlew clean check in an external plugin that uses 7.3.1 as dependency returns with this error

./gradlew clean check

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':copyRestSpec'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':restSpec'.
   > Could not find org.elasticsearch.rest-api-spec:7.3.1:.
     Required by:
         project :

* Try:
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BUILD FAILED in 982ms

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/es-core-infra

[rjernst]

@spinscale Did you do this perhaps in the middle of the 7.3.1 release? The artifact appears to exist now: https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.elasticsearch/rest-api-spec/7.3.1/jar

[synhershko]

+1 just hit this as well

[synhershko]

@rjernst I just followed our normal plugin release process today, after the release cycle has completed I'm sure. I get a bit different error than @spinscale though:

Could not determine the dependencies of task ':copyRestSpec'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':restSpec'.
   > Could not find org.elasticsearch.rest-api-spec:7.3.1:.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - file:/home/synhershko/code/elasticsearch-custom-plugin/dependencies/7.3.1.jar
     Required by:
         project :

Immediately running another build after this error does seem to succeed though (third run will fail and so on)

[rjernst]

Alright this is indeed a bug, sorry about that. A recent refactoring broke the maven coordinates syntax (notice there is a dot between the group and artifact name instead of colon). I've opened #45949 to fix this, but unfortunately I don't see a workaround. Maybe @mark-vieira has an idea for that.

[mark-vieira]

This is really unfortunate. I apologize for the screw up here, we are lacking critical test coverage here because of some complications around how these plugins interact when applied to the Elasticsearch project vs third-party projects.

I'm looking into potential workarounds at the moment.

[mark-vieira]

@spinscale Sorry again for the disruption. You can upgrade to 7.3.1 by adding the following to your build.gradle file. The changes for the previous workaround in #45073 can be removed.

configurations.restSpec.withDependencies { dependencies -> 
  dependencies.clear()
  dependencies.add(project.dependencies.create("org.elasticsearch:rest-api-spec:${elasticsearchVersion}"))
}

[spinscale]

the workaround works, thanks @mark-vieira