Resolving Symbols in artifacts created with NAR maven plugin

I am working on two projects.  I'm using the nar maven plugin (https://github.com/maven-nar) to generate a nar artifact for the first project that is used as a dependency in the second project.  After adding it to the pom file for the second project, everything resolves alright if I do the standard maven install (I even have integration tests that use the dependency that work.)  The issue I'm having now is that if I use intellij, it doesn't seem to understand the nar artifact.  Intellij is unable to resolve the symbols packaged in the nar and thus doesn't let me build or do anything.  I use vim mostly but I sometimes use intellij, so I will be unable to use intellij unless I can resolve this.  I tried adding nar to the maven dependency types but it didn't seem to resolve.  Has anybody encountered this before?  Thanks in advance.