It's not a dummy parameter, it's the parameter that will give you the
reports. Without it, how do you hope to access the list of registered
reports at all?

- Brett

On 10/18/05, David Sag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> What I need is acccess to the various checkstyle (etc) reports in an xml
> format.
>
> what you describe below doesn't seem appropriate to me. My parameters
> already have various expressions and default values but i do need to ensure
> that the checkstyle (etc) plugins have already been run, before my plugin is
> run.
>
> requiresReports is a goal-wide setting, not specific to a parameter, so i
> guess what i am assking is
>
> 1) what is that tag actually for
> 2) how to set it to true
>
> if you are saying that to set that tag to true i need to create a dummy
> parameter with @parameter expression="${reports}" set then i really feel
> that's a very stupid hack.
>
> why not just let me set @requiresReports in the very top of my mojo where
> the @goal, @phase and @requiresDependencyResolution tags live.
>
> Kind regards,
> Dave Sag
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 18/10/2005 04:58:26 AM:
>
> > You need to use the reports, so declare:
> >
> > @parameter expression="${reports}"
> >
> > That will trigger it. But are you sure you relly need access to the
> reports?
> > That's generally only for the site plugin.
> >
> > The aggregator tag causes the mojo not to be run for subprojects,
> instead it
> > is run at the root and you have access to ${reactorProjects}
> >
> > On 10/17/05, David Sag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am writing an M2 plugin for QALab. QALab aggregates the reports from
> > > other plugins such as checkstyle etc.
> > >
> > > In my plugin.xml file there is a tag
> > > <requiresReports>false</requiresReports> and so I guessed that setting
> > >
> > > @requiresReports
> > >
> > > at the to of my Mojo would change this flat to true when i regenerate
> the
> > > plugin.xml file. but it does not.
> > >
> > > also while I am at it, I am curious as to the role of the aggregator
> tag
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Dave Sag
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>

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