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Romain Manni-Bucau commented on MPLUGIN-350: -------------------------------------------- +1, also need an adhoc attribute on the plugin since no parameter is needed for several plugin so no location to add an attribute. > Split @Parameter into @Input and @Output > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: MPLUGIN-350 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MPLUGIN-350 > Project: Maven Plugin Tools > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Robert Scholte > Priority: Major > > By knowing if parameters are input or output parameters, it is possible to > improve our builds. It will be possible to create DAGs and chain the > execution blocks much smarter. > The Maven Extension created by Gradle heavily relies on this kind of > information. > It is probably easier to use new annotations instead of adding a (required) > status-field to @Parameter > Looking at the {{plugin.xml}} it looks quite easy to solve this and stay > backwards compatible: the file looks now like: > {code:xml} > <parameters> > <parameter> > ... > </parameter> > </parameters> > {code} > With plexus-magic the following should still work: > {code:xml} > <parameters> > <input> > ... > </input> > <output> > ... > </output> > </parameters> > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)