On 12 Aug 07, at 5:53 AM 12 Aug 07, Jason Dillon wrote:
On Aug 11, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Kenney Westerhof wrote:
In Maven-project, there's org.apache.maven.project.ModelUtils,
which has some
methods to merge plugin definitions.
Okay, thanks I will have a peek.
Just curious, what do you need this for?
Well, basically, I want to create a plugin, which will depend on
another plugin as a compile dependency, and then have the new
plugin pick up all of the other plugins goals and dependency
configuration. Basically, I want to _extend_ an entire plugin.
Right, including the component information. I get it.
That would be cool, but you might want to look at trying to do this
at the Plexus level. We have a bit of a disparity at this point in
time because the Mojo processing tools are slightly different then
the component processing tools in Plexus. Generally if one component
extends another you want to utilize any existing component
information. So any tool would need to know to step into the JAR
extract the metadata and use that for extension. I am assuming this
is what you mean. But if you are going to start this then the best
solution, though by no means the easiest, is to teach to Plexus' CDC
how to do this generally. The CDC is a more general version of the
Mojo descriptor generator which produces the plugin.xml. The
plugin.xml is really a Plexus component descriptor in disguise.
I'm trying to play around with how I can use more Groovy code in
the modules that support the groovy-maven-plugin, so I am playing
with a bootstrap plugin that just contains all of the goals to
compile... there about about 5 of them right now. But I don't want
to have a compiler plugin and then a groovy plugin, I want them all
in the same plugin, but I also want to write some of the other
goals in Groovy, which becomes well... not easy ;-)
So, I'm just experimenting with some ways to do it better... and
thats where the idea to have one plugin extend another came from.
Really general component extension.
--jason
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Jason
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