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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >