confluent-kafka/8.1.0.10 package update

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⚙️ Build Failed: Configuration

Error: failed to parse the pom file: open pom.xml: no such file or directory

Build Details

Category	Details
Build System	Maven/POM
Failure Point	pombump step in the build pipeline

Root Cause Analysis 🔍

The build is attempting to use the 'pombump' tool to modify a Maven POM file, but the pom.xml file does not exist in the expected location. This is likely because the repository structure for Confluent Kafka doesn't have a pom.xml at the root level, as it might use a different build system or have the Maven configuration in a subdirectory.

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🔍 Build failure fix suggestions

Found similar build failures that have been fixed in the past and analyzed them to suggest a fix:

Similar PRs with fixes

• cassandra-5.0/5.0.3-r0: cve remediation #42330
• selenium/4.28.0-r0: cve remediation #42311

Suggested Changes

File: confluent-kafka.yaml

• modify at line 52-54 (maven/pombump step)
  Original:

  - uses: maven/pombump
    with:
      patch-file: pombump-deps.yaml

Replacement:

  # Removing pombump step as Confluent Kafka uses Gradle, not Maven
  # If dependency patching is needed, use an alternative approach like patching build.gradle

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Analysis

The similar fixed build failures reveal a common pattern: when a repository doesn't use Maven as its build system or doesn't have a pom.xml in the expected location, the Maven/pombump step fails with "Error: failed to parse the pom file: open pom.xml: no such file or directory". In both examples, the fixes involved either:

1. Removing the pombump step entirely (Selenium case) when the project doesn't use Maven at all
2. Specifying the correct path to the pom.xml file (Cassandra case) when Maven files exist but in a non-standard location

Looking at Confluent Kafka, it appears to be using Gradle as its primary build system, not Maven. This is evident from the pipeline which calls "gradle clean releaseTarGz". While Kafka might have Maven files somewhere in the repository, they're not at the root level where the pombump tool is looking by default.

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Explanation

The build is failing because the pombump tool is looking for a pom.xml file in the root directory of the Confluent Kafka repository, but this file doesn't exist there. Confluent Kafka uses Gradle as its build system (evident from the "gradle clean releaseTarGz" command in the pipeline), not Maven.

Removing the pombump step entirely is the simplest solution when the repository doesn't use Maven at all. The build will proceed without attempting to modify non-existent Maven configuration files.

If there are specific dependencies that need to be patched (which was likely the intention of the pombump step), those would need to be handled through a different approach such as:

1. Patching Gradle build files directly
2. Using a custom patch file that modifies the build.gradle files

Since the build already successfully proceeds to the Gradle build step (and presumably fails only at the pombump step), removing this step should allow the build to continue.

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Alternative Approaches

• If Confluent Kafka does have Maven files somewhere in the repository (but not in the root directory), an alternative would be to specify the correct path to the pom.xml file using the 'pom' parameter, similar to the Cassandra fix: '- uses: maven/pombump\n with:\n patch-file: pombump-deps.yaml\n pom: ./path/to/pom.xml'
• Create a minimal pom.xml file in the repository root with just the dependencies that need to be bumped, if using Maven dependencies is critical for the build process.
• If dependency patching is absolutely necessary, convert the Maven dependency bumps to Gradle format and apply them using a patch to the build.gradle file.

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superseded by #54989