Plugins need to offer up all information without executing

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In an IDE environment, you want to know what will be generated by a plugin without having it execute. For example, if you have a plugin that generates a source directory you want to know that without having actually execute the plugin because it can take a long time if you have a lot of plugins.

Another issue will probably have to be created to outline changes to the plugin api so that external tools can call this method to get all the information up-front. I couldn't find any related issues.

This should also work when reactor projects are run.

Another example is any plugin that produces resources that need to be added to the UI.

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New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. MNG-193 symmetry for outputs of a plugin

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is depended upon by

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MEVENIDE-595 java package for generated sources trunkated

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Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNGECLIPSE-79 Plugin does not execute generate-test-sources and generate-test-resources goals

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Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNGECLIPSE-163 Plugin doesn't add extra sources directories which are added using the build-helper-maven-plugin

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.
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Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-1450 no easy way to figure generated source roots for a project

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supercedes

Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. MNG-1450 no easy way to figure generated source roots for a project

  • Major - Major loss of function.
  • Closed - The issue is considered finished, the resolution is correct. Issues which are not closed can be reopened.

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Trygve Laugstol added a comment -

This sounds like a Maven Extension Proposal (MEP) to me!

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Trygve Laugstol added a comment - This sounds like a Maven Extension Proposal (MEP) to me!
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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment -

Jason, in a mean time (for short term) it would be enough to get back all the resources and source generated by plugins during Maven execution cycle. So, I can call generate-sources and capture source folders registered by plugins. See sample project mngeclipse-75-xmlbeans-testcase.zip in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-75

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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment - Jason, in a mean time (for short term) it would be enough to get back all the resources and source generated by plugins during Maven execution cycle. So, I can call generate-sources and capture source folders registered by plugins. See sample project mngeclipse-75-xmlbeans-testcase.zip in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-75
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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment -

This is probably the same as MNG-1450

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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment - This is probably the same as MNG-1450
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Brett Porter added a comment -

this seems like the more general case of MNG-1450, I'll close it as superceded

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Brett Porter added a comment - this seems like the more general case of MNG-1450, I'll close it as superceded
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Jason van Zyl added a comment -

So this really includes all the outputs of a plugin plus any other behaviour that we might want to know about. Right now now I can only think of outputs and information that already exists in the generated plugin.xml.

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Jason van Zyl added a comment - So this really includes all the outputs of a plugin plus any other behaviour that we might want to know about. Right now now I can only think of outputs and information that already exists in the generated plugin.xml.
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Milos Kleint added a comment -

here's my idea that I would like to prototype.
1. add a method to the DefaultLifeCycleExecutor class that would return the lifecycle map (correctly ordered i guess)
2. that would contain all the plugin mappings to the liecycle phases
3. and have the parameters resolved correctly, both the ones defined in pom and the default ones.. all the param value should be just dom trees, no beans to prevent classloading issues

that way one could query into what the project setup is without running it. Ideally one would have the export parameters marked (eg. the source roots location for generated sources) in the plugin description, but one could probably get away with a plugin+parameter mapings on the IDE side for the start. There are not so many plugins that generate sources.

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Milos Kleint added a comment - here's my idea that I would like to prototype. 1. add a method to the DefaultLifeCycleExecutor class that would return the lifecycle map (correctly ordered i guess) 2. that would contain all the plugin mappings to the liecycle phases 3. and have the parameters resolved correctly, both the ones defined in pom and the default ones.. all the param value should be just dom trees, no beans to prevent classloading issues that way one could query into what the project setup is without running it. Ideally one would have the export parameters marked (eg. the source roots location for generated sources) in the plugin description, but one could probably get away with a plugin+parameter mapings on the IDE side for the start. There are not so many plugins that generate sources.

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    Jason van Zyl
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