Hi David, this is a perfect match for a profile. Define your "fixed" configuration in a profile of the parent that is activated based on the existance of a file. Add such a "dummy" file in all sub project that should run with the profile activated, e.g. "touch profiles/fixed". Then you will not even have to modify the POMs of the sub projects.
Cheers, Jörg KARR, DAVID wrote: > Although my issue is about configuring the "jacoco-maven-plugin", I think > it's really more of a pure Maven configuration issue, as I don't think > this situation is unique to JaCoCo. > > I have a somewhat large multi-module project. Each of the child modules > has a parent pom that configures the "jacoco-maven-plugin" to do offline > instrumentation (at present, all the modules having unit tests using > PowerMock, which doesn't work with online instrumentation). > > I've designed a change that I'll have to make in a few classes in each > module that will allow the unit tests to use Mockito, and for JaCoCo to > use online instrumentation. I'll eventually fix all of them to work this > way, but it will take a little while. In the meantime, I just want to > override the configuration in the "fixed" modules with online > instrumentation and let the other modules use the default of offline > instrumentation. > > The simple-minded way to do this is just to define the same configuration > using online instrumentation in each "fixed" module, so it will override > the parent pom. Copying that block to every "fixed" module is not a great > idea. I'd like a solution that requires less code duplication. > > I suppose I could define ANOTHER parent pom, that specifies the existing > parent as its parent, and have that second parent use online > instrumentation, and have the fixed modules use that second parent > instead. I will eventually delete this second parent pom once all of the > modules are "fixed". > > Note that I have a separate aggregator pom that is not a parent pom. > > Are there other reasonable strategies for this "use original parent for > some, override in same way for others" situation? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
