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new 88ab17a Mention external file support for extensions
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commit 88ab17aa13c1ce3d6a105a1801be5a012591b3bb
Author: Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Oct 1 10:25:33 2020 +0200
Mention external file support for extensions
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README.md | 6 ++++++
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@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ Up to version 1.3.4 of the maven plugin, all occurences of
placeholders where tr
For versions higher than 1.3.4, the `enableLegacyVariableReplacement`
configuration can be set to `true` to enable this old behaviour. But it is
discouraged to do so and rather use `replacePropertyVariables` with a clearly
defined set of placeholders.
+## External Files for Text Extensions
+
+For versions higher than 1.4.0, the maven plugin supports to author extensions
in external files. For example a repoinit section can be written in a text file
next to the feature model file. If an extension of type text is specified in
the feature model with the value `@file`, the maven plugin looks for a file in
the same directory as the feature model. The file must have the same name as
the feature file followed by a dash, the name of the extension and ".txt". For
example a feature fil [...]
+
+In addition, it is possible to control the name of the file name by specifying
the part after the dash. For example using `@file:xssapi.xml` as the value of
the extension leads to the a file named `myfeature-xssapi.xml` to be read.
+
# Global Configuration
* features : The directory containing the feature files. The default is
`src/main/features`.
