Maven 1.x Javadoc Plugin

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: None
• Labels:

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• Environment:

  every

Add the ability to set self-referencing properties in the *.properties files of maven. This could be useful e.g. for javadoc plugin for a (hypothetical) javadoc.offlineUrl property, which points to where the offline javadocs are located:
project.properties could contain such locations which are part of the project, e.g.

javadoc.offlineUrl=apidoc/package1/apidoc/packages.html:apidoc/package2/apidoc/packages.html

$HOME/build.properties then should be able to extend the property by adding further offline URLs, e.g.

javadoc.offlineUrl=${javadoc.offlineUrl}:/usr/share/j2sdk1.4.1/docs/api/

Of course, a general "self-referencing properties" could be useful for several other cases.

As far as I was able to test this feature, a self-referencing properties used like above causes a Exception.

I have no idea which code needs to be changed, so sorry, there's no patch attached.

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  Martin Skopp

• Created:

  19/Aug/03 2:09 AM

  Updated:

  22/Aug/05 6:40 AM