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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARCHETYPE-487: ------------------------------------------ Github user mryan43 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/maven-archetype/pull/7#discussion_r65317792 --- Diff: maven-archetype-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/archetype/ui/ArchetypeConfiguration.java --- @@ -19,12 +19,15 @@ * under the License. */ +import org.apache.maven.archetype.common.Constants; +import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils; --- End diff -- Dropping this breaks compilation... > Input validation for required properties defined in artifact descriptor > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARCHETYPE-487 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARCHETYPE-487 > Project: Maven Archetype > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Archetypes, Generator, Plugin > Reporter: Manuel Ryan > Priority: Minor > > Add the possibility to define validation regular expressions for required > properties in artifact descriptors. > Use the regular expressions to validate user input (and ask the user to try > again if the expression doesn't match) > here's an example of a property that is required by the archetype to be only > lower case alphabet characters: > --- in archetype-metadata.xml : > <requiredProperty key="username"> > <validationRegex>^[a-z]*$</validationRegex> > </requiredProperty> > --- at prompt : > Define value for property 'username' (should match expression '^[a-z]*$'): > John > Value does not match the expression, please try again: john > Define value for property... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)