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On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Hervé BOUTEMY <herve.bout...@free.fr> wrote: > there are interesting discussion happening on github, but they are not routed > to any mailing-list, so they stay completely personal: this is not good for > community, IMHO > is there a way to have such discussions sent to dev@? > Regards, > Hervé > ---------- Message transmit ---------- > Sujet : Re: [maven] removed XSD generation since it is not published (19247f3) > Date : dimanche 25 mai 2014, 02:29:12 > De : Dave Moten <notificati...@github.com> > À : apache/maven <ma...@noreply.github.com> > CC : Hervé Boutemy <herve.bout...@free.fr> > I was interested in writing tooling around composing plugins maximising > type safety for example but was disappointed that the definition of a > plugin's configuration was not something I could reverse engineer > satisfactorily from the plugin.xml and in the process discovered that the > plugin.XML didn't have an xsd making more guesswork out of the process. I > used xpath to get stuff out of it in the end but I stopped work when I > realised that my only hope was parsing plugins' source code. > I'm a big fan of XML always having an xsd but I probably won't be able to > check out modello and get an xsd happening in the near future and I'm > assuming for my interests that it won't help much either. I wonder if real > type information for configuration will turn up in plugin.xml sometime? > Thanks for chasing it. > D > On 25 May 2014 18:14, "Hervé Boutemy" <notificati...@github.com> wrote: >> on a pure principle, I know it looks awkward >> on a practical one: >> 1. did you ever try to write a plugin descriptor by hand? or do you always >> let plugin-tools generate the descriptor (like the vast majority of plugin >> developers)? >> 2. are you able to give us a xsd description for the configuration element >> content? and that fits into Modello descriptor, since Modello generates the >> xsd from .mdo? >> >> I'm not a big xsd expert: any help appreciated to fix the plugin.mdo I >> wrote to at least document the descriptor "from a human point of view" (ie >> not seeing in general that I had to cheat with configuration element) >> >> — >> Reply to this email directly or view it on > GitHub<https://github.com/apache/maven/commit/19247f363bee07d1afc6f8902f4083fd890fc47a#commitcomment-6439921> >> . >> > --- > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > https://github.com/apache/maven/commit/19247f363bee07d1afc6f8902f4083fd890fc47a#commitcomment-6440111 > ----------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
