add apache-mirror-selector to ansible playbook

scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/roles/maven/files/apache-mirror-selector.py

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys, argparse
+from urllib2 import urlopen
+from json import loads
+
+class UsageOnErrorParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    def error(self, message):
+        sys.stderr.write('argument error: %s\n' % message)
+        self.print_help()
+        sys.exit(2)
+
+parser = UsageOnErrorParser(description='Print preferred Apache mirror URL.')
+parser.add_argument('url', type=str, help='Apache mirror selector url.')
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+jsonurl = args.url + '&asjson=1'
+
+body = urlopen(jsonurl).read().decode('utf-8')
+mirrors = loads(body)
+print(mirrors['preferred'] + mirrors['path_info'])
+

scripts/vagrant/zeppelin-dev/roles/maven/tasks/main.yml

@@ -17,13 +17,19 @@
 # Assumes Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM)
 # Assumes Java 7+ jdk installed
 ---
+
+- name: get apache maven mirror location
+  script: apache-mirror-selector.py http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
+  register: mavenURL
+
+- debug: var=mavenURL.stdout_lines[0]
+
 - name: download maven
-  get_url: url=http://apache.mirrorcatalogs.com/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
+  get_url: url="{{mavenURL.stdout_lines[0]}}"
            dest=/tmp/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
            mode=0440
            validate_certs=False
 
-
 - name: extract maven tgz
   unarchive: src=/tmp/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
              dest=/usr/local/
@@ -34,4 +40,3 @@
   file: src=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin/mvn
         path=/usr/bin/mvn
         state=link
-