> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Hoeller [mailto:mar...@xss.co.at] > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 11:44 PM > To: Maven Users List <users@maven.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Strategies for overriding parent plugin configuration in > some modules without duplicating config code? > > Hi! > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:32 "KARR, DAVID" <dk0...@att.com> 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. > > > Just two weeks ago Tamás Cservenák pointed out on this list the > configuration-maven-plugin [1]. I haven't used it myself, but it sounds > like this plugin could help you saving some code duplication. > > hth, > - martin > > [1] https://github.com/cstamas/configuration-maven-plugin
It does look promising, but as the README says, this is just a "proof of concept" and doesn't appear to be available in mavencentral. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
