Can not download sources with Intellij Idea community 12.1.4 and maven 3.0.5

Question

I click \"download sources and documentation\" in Intellij Idea Community Edition 12.1.4 and get error that sources can not be downloaded. But when I try:

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Answer 1

In Intellij 2017.x, 2016.x, 15.x, 14.x the given solution does not work as the option is removed.

The problem can be solved by changing JDK for Importer to a latest JDK instead of User Internal JRE which was 1.6.0 by default on Mac

The setting JDK For Importer can be found in:

Preferences -> Build, Execution,Deployment -> Build Tools -> Maven -> Importing

Answer 2

I had this issue, and sources weren't being downloaded since I needed credentials from my project's specific settings.xml.

To fix (Intellij 2018.1.2):

File -> Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Maven

and provide the appropriate settings.xml in the 'User settings file' section

Answer 3

I changed the java version in pom.xml to match my jdk's version and it worked for me.

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>

     <!--earlier this was 1.8-->
    <java.version>10</java.version>

</properties>

Answer 4

"I had the same issue with IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.3 and Maven 3.2.1. No solution mentioned here was working. In my case a newer Maven version fixed the issue. With Maven 3.3.9 IDEA can now download the sources."

anything's already in the former answers...

• download sources in your repo mvn dependency:sources
• F4 on the class you want to check the sources out
• locate the source jar in your local repository

maybe it is not a full IDE solution, but hope it solves your issue

Answer 5

I solve this by use jdk 1.8 in MAVEN -> RUNNER -> JRE .my idea version is 2016.2

Answer 6

Running IDEA version 12.1.6 and I have the same issue.

When I uncheck the following option it does work:

Settings > Maven > Importing > Use Maven3 to import project