writing a maven plugin that transparently adds a new source folder

[Andrew Eisenberg]

Hi all,

I am trying to create a maven plugin that transparently adds a new
source folder to the project.  It is always the same folder and so
there should be no configuration required from the user.  I've been
going through 
http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/writing-plugins.html
, but I can't find anything that solves my problem.

I created a plugin project with the following mojo:


/**
 * @goal add-xxx-source
 * @phase compile
 * @execute phase="compile"
 */
public class AddGroovySourceFolders extends AbstractMojo {
    /**
     * @parameter expression="${project}"
     * @required
     * @readonly
     */
    private MavenProject project;

    public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException, MojoFailureException {
        getLog().info("Adding /src/main/xxx to the list of source folders");
        this.project.addCompileSourceRoot(project.getBasedir() +
"/src/main/xxx");
    }
}

Now, the only way that I can get this mojo executing is by explicitly
adding it in the executions section of the plugin dependency:

                        <plugin>
                                <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
                                <artifactId>xxx-compiler</artifactId>
                                <version>2.6.0-01-SNAPSHOT</version>
                                <executions>
                                        <execution>
                                                <id>add-source</id>
                                                <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                                                <goals>
                                                        
<goal>add-xxx-source</goal>
                                                </goals>
                                        </execution>
                                </executions>
                        </plugin>

I would like it so that consumers of my plugin can leave out the
extensions section and have the mojo executed automatically, like
this:

                        <plugin>
                                <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
                                <artifactId>xxx-compiler</artifactId>
                                <version>2.6.0-01-SNAPSHOT</version>
                        </plugin>

Is this possible? And how can I do this?

thanks for your help.

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