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Yegor Borovikov edited comment on MNG-6450 at 8/8/18 10:52 PM: --------------------------------------------------------------- [~rfscholte], the idea is to automatically produce an up-to-date BOM with a plugin as a part of a project build - instead of having to manually maintain it (adding/removing modules, updating their versions, etc.). Of course, the correctness of the generated BOM would be a responsibility of the plugin (like that of any other artifacts produced by Maven plugins), and nothing seems to prevent it from using a ModelValidator as an extra check. Maven plugins are encouraged (since 6cf9320942c34bc68205425ab696b1712ace9ba4) to attach classified artifacts only - hence this issue. On the bright side, currently a plugin can as easily attach any artifact to any reactor module (and non-classified poms can be imported by any version of Maven), so there's no pressing need for this change - beyond compliance with the recommendation to use MavenProjectHelper exclusively. was (Author: yborovikov): [~rfscholte], the idea is to automatically produce an up-to-date BOM with a plugin as a part of a project build - instead of having to manually maintain it (adding/removing modules, updating their versions, etc.). Of course, the correctness of the generated BOM would be a responsibility of the plugin (like that of any other artifacts produced by Maven plugins), and nothing seems to prevent it from using a ModelValidator as an extra check. Maven plugins are encouraged to attach classified artifacts only - hence this issue. On the bright side, currently a plugin can as easily attach any artifact to any reactor module (and non-classified poms can be imported by any version of Maven), so there's no pressing need for the change - beyond compliance with the recommendation (introduced by 6cf9320942c34bc68205425ab696b1712ace9ba4) to use MavenProjectHelper exclusively. > Allow importing a POM with a classifier > --------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-6450 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6450 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Dependencies, POM > Affects Versions: 3.0 > Reporter: Yegor Borovikov > Priority: Major > Labels: easy-fix, pull-request-available > > Currently, a POM-packaged artifact with a classifier cannot be imported - > there is an explicit check for that in > [DefaultModelValidator|https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/master/maven-model-builder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/model/validation/DefaultModelValidator.java#L480]. > I couldn't find anything in Maven documentation that would mention/explain > this limitation. According to [~rfscholte] this [might > be|https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@maven.apache.org/msg114101.html] > "historical". > Example use case: a BOM (bill of materials) plugin could generate a BOM POM > and attach it (with a classifier) to the project. However, currently there's > no way to import the generated BOM because of the restriction. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)