Please publish opensearch-custom-codecs as a .jar to Maven Central for easy integration

[jugal-chauhan]

Hi team,

Thank you for the work on custom-codecs — it’s an excellent resource for building custom Lucene compression codecs.

I am currently working on opensearch-migrations, which is a gradle-based project utilizing several lucene libraries, and I noticed that the latest Maven Central artifact for opensearch-custom-codecs:3.0.0.0 is published as a .zip file (intended for plugin distribution)

This .zip contains the actual .jar (opensearch-custom-codecs-3.0.0.0.jar), but because it’s not published as a standalone artifact, it cannot be consumed directly via Gradle or Maven in other Java projects without extra steps like:
• Manually unzipping the plugin file
• Installing the .jar into mavenLocal, or
• Writing custom Gradle logic to extract it from the .zip

Request:
Could you please also publish the opensearch-custom-codecs-3.0.0.0.jar as a first-class .jar artifact to Maven Central alongside the .zip plugin? This would make it much easier for developers to Import this project as a regular dependency.

I am happy to help contribute if needed.

Thank you once again!

[sumobrian]

This is blocking support for reading snapshots with segments compressed with zstd.

[andrross]

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@peterzhuamazon Do we have any other examples of plugins publishing JAR artifacts to maven central?