Hi Brian,
I will look in to what is involved in publishing the plugin to a
repository. But failing that is there a supported way of installing a
plugin from a file asset? e.g. a combination of mvn commands such that
the repository is set up as if it had been a normal plugin download?
thanks,
Kaveh.
Brian E. Fox wrote:
> Ah, I see. The install-file doesn't understand what should be done for
> plugins, which is why it's there for you but not someone else. Why not
> publish this plugin to a repo that your users can access? It will make
> your life easier.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaveh Goudarzi [mailto:ka...@itkaa.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 4:18 PM
> To: Maven Developers List
> Subject: Re: install:install-file & Repository MetaData files
> maven-metadata-local.xml
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> In both cases the pluginGroup is added to my settings.xml e.g
>
> ~/.m2/settings.xml
> ------------------
> <settings>
> <pluginGroups>
> <pluginGroup>com.my.pacakge</pluginGroup>
> </pluginGroups>
> </settings>
> ------------------
>
> However it only appears to work if the two
> maven-metadata-local.xml
> files exist otherwise the short-hand or non-specific-version
> invocations fail.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Kaveh.
>
> Brian E. Fox wrote:
>> In order for maven to look in the right place for the shorthand
> lookup,
>> you need to add a pluginGroup in your settings. By default, maven only
>> uses org.apache.maven.plugins and org.codehaus.mojo.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kaveh Goudarzi [mailto:ka...@itkaa.com]
>> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 11:22 AM
>> To: dev@maven.apache.org
>> Subject: install:install-file & Repository MetaData files
>> maven-metadata-local.xml
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've implemented a maven plugin which when installed via the "mvn
>> install" command as part of the build is installed "correctly" in the
>> local repository. By adding the plugin group reference to the
>> ~/.m2/settings.xml I'm able to then invoke the plugin using it's short
>> hand prefix or without specifying the version. So far so good.
>>
>> However I find that when I send the users the jar file alone and
>> ask them to install the plugin using the following command
>>
>> mvn install:install-file -Dfile=maven-mytest-plugin-1.1.jar \
>> -DgroupId=com.my.package \
>> -DartifactId=maven-mytest-plugin \
>> -Dpackaging=maven-plugin \
>> -Dversion=1.1 \
>> -DupdateReleaseInfo=true \
>> -DcreateChecksum=true \
>> -DgeneratePom=true
>>
>>
>> The users always have to supply the full plugin
>> group:artifact-id:version:goal and are not able to use the short-hand
>> or the default latest version of the plugin.
>>
>> Comparing the maven repository files I see that when I install
>> the
>> plugin on my dev machine using the mvn install command two crucial
>> files are created which are absent when the mvn install:install-file
>> command is invoked. These are:
>>
>> ~/.m2/repositories/com/my/package/maven-metadata-local.xml
>> ------------------
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><metadata>
>> <plugins>
>> <plugin>
>> <name>maven-mytest-plugin Maven Mojo</name>
>> <prefix>mytest</prefix>
>> <artifactId>maven-mytest-plugin</artifactId>
>> </plugin>
>> </plugins>
>> </metadata>
>>
>> and another one at
>>
>>
> ~/.m2/repositories/com/my/package/maven-mytest-plugin/maven-metadata-loc
>> al.xml
>> ------------------
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><metadata>
>> <groupId>com.my.package</groupId>
>> <artifactId>maven-mytest-plugin</artifactId>
>> <version>1.1</version>
>> <versioning>
>> <latest>1.1</latest>
>> <versions>
>> <version>1.1</version>
>> </versions>
>> <lastUpdated>20090312204457</lastUpdated>
>> </versioning>
>> </metadata>
>>
>> These two files appear to be crucial in allowing me to invoke
>> the
>> plugin using the long-hand but not specifying the version and for it
>> to default to the latest version and also to allow the short hand
>> prefix invocation.
>>
>> So my questions is what is the correct way of installing such a
>> plugin? ... am I missing some crucial step? I found this link but
>> couldn't understand if it applies
>> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Repository+Metadata
>>
>> I'm using 2.0.9 writing plugins in java
>>
>> mvn -version
>> Maven version: 2.0.9
>> Java version: 1.5.0_16
>> OS name: "mac os x" version: "10.5.6" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"
>>
>> thanks in advance for you help + kind regards,
>>
>> Kaveh.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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