symmetry for outputs of a plugin

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 3.1
  • Component/s: Plugins and Lifecycle
  • Labels:
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Description

We need a way to declaratively say what the outputs of a plugins are going to be. The concrete example being the Antlr plugin that generates a source root, we should know what this is going to be before executing the plugin.

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is depended upon by

New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. MNG-2333 Plugins need to offer up all information without executing

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.

Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. MNG-125 guarded mojo execution

  • Trivial - Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.
is related to

New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. MNG-1569 Make build process info read-only to mojos, and provide mechanism for explicit out-params for mojos to declare

  • Trivial - Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text.
  • Open - The issue is open and ready for the assignee to start work on it.

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John Casey added a comment -

is this still something we're working toward for 2.0, or is it something for later?

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John Casey added a comment - is this still something we're working toward for 2.0, or is it something for later?
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Jason van Zyl added a comment -

The use cases I can think of:

o generated sources being added the compile source roots

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Jason van Zyl added a comment - The use cases I can think of: o generated sources being added the compile source roots
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Brett Porter added a comment -

waiting on a proposal, more use cases.

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Brett Porter added a comment - waiting on a proposal, more use cases.
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Jason van Zyl added a comment -

This will be part of a new Plugin API which is out of scope for Maven 3.0.

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Jason van Zyl added a comment - This will be part of a new Plugin API which is out of scope for Maven 3.0.

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    Reporter:
    Brett Porter
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