Maven 1.x Application Generation Plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: None
• Labels:

  None
• Environment:

  All

Currently, the genapp plugin assumes that ${basedir} is to be the top-level of the project being 'gen'ed. The user doesn't realize that the plugin is going to write a bunch of files/directories to the current directory until after running it.

It would be nice if we could prompt for a location. I have tested that with simple code modifications to plugin.jelly & plugin.properties

plugin.jelly:
Step 1
Replace all occurences of ${basedir} with ${projectRoot}.

Step 2
Add the following lines at line 92

<!-- Get the project root -->
<j:set var="projectRoot" value="${maven.genapp.projectRoot}"/>
<j:if test="${empty(projectRoot)}">
<i:ask question="${maven.genapp.prompt.projectRoot}"
answer="projectRoot"
default="${basedir}/${maven.genapp.template.name}"/>
</j:if>

plugin.properties:
Added the property setting

maven.genapp.prompt.projectRoot=Please specify the project root directory:

I can provide the modified files – and related changes to properties.xml – if you wish.

• Assignee:

  Felipe Leme

  Reporter:

  Sri Sankaran

• Created:

  18/Oct/03 3:53 PM

  Updated:

  28/Oct/05 8:28 PM

  Resolved:

  28/Oct/05 8:28 PM