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Is there a way to print Ivy output when using Groovy Grape.

when I use Grape, it's just hanging there till finishes downloading all dependencies. I would like to know what it's happening and what it's downloading.


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Looks like this might be in Groovy 1.7.6


i.e. -Dgroovy.grape.report.downloads=true in JAVA_OPTS or on the command line

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The download report is useful. It would be better to get true verbose output that includes the repos it's searching –  Chip McCormick Dec 19 '12 at 16:38
this is nice but only if it reported why it freezes after this line.. Preparing to download artifact javax.servlet#servlet-api;2.4!servlet-api.jar –  akostadinov Jul 8 '13 at 11:32

tim_yates answer is good but if you need to debug a problem with Grapes, then this might be useful:


source: http://theholyjava.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/groovy-grape-troubleshooting-failed-download/

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A combination of these two answers should be accepted... –  Justin Smith Aug 1 at 18:14

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