Description of requiredProperty

ant elder added a comment - 04/Jul/09 9:20 AM +1, having a property description would be really useful

Herve Boutemy added a comment - 01/Apr/11 7:50 PM any suggestion? I didn't write the initial code, then I'm not sure I understand precisely the intent: any help appreciated

ant elder added a comment - 02/Apr/11 5:43 AM An example of a property is: <requiredProperty key="includeTuscanyRuntime"> <defaultValue>Y</defaultValue> </requiredProperty> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/sca-java-2.x/trunk/maven/archetypes/quickstart/src/main/resources/META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml You can run that architype with mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog= http://tuscany.apache.org and choose archetype 3 and then it lets you set the values for the properties, one being includeTuscanyRuntime as defined above, but it just prompts as: Define value for property 'includeTuscanyRuntime': Y: Which isn't that descriptive and gives no help about what includeTuscanyRuntime means. The suggestion is to extend the requiredProperty definition to include a description saying what the property does, perhaps like this: <requiredProperty key="includeTuscanyRuntime"> <defaultValue>Y</defaultValue> <description>Should the Tuscany runtime dependencies be included in the generated pom.xml?</description> </requiredProperty> and then have that description displayed when prompting for the property value. Or else perhaps don't show the description by default but support entering a question mark ? at the prompt which then causes the description to be shown. Thanks for looking anyway, fixing this JIRA and also http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-308 would then have achetypes working in a much much more user friendly way.