Hi,
I have just added a 'project-reports' plugin, which adds the task,
property and dependency report tasks to the project. Currently, these
tasks don't do anything different to the equivalent command-line
options, except that they write their output to a file. The plan is to
make them generate HTML reports and make them more comprehensive.
My problem is that this plugin needs a convention property which defines
the project-wide reports directory. This convention property is also
needed by the java plugin (for the junit report), and will be needed by
any other plugins we add reports to. Currently, this property is on the
java plugin convention. The project-reports plugin cannot assume that
this is present for the project, as the java plugin may not be used.
I'm thinking of extracting a generic base plugin from the java plugin,
which both the project-reports and java plugins would extend (in the
same way the war/groovy/maven/osgi plugins extends the java plugin).
This plugin would define a small number of properties:
- reportsDir
- archiveTypes
- archivesBaseName
- distsDir
And a small number of tasks:
- clean
- init
- dists
- reports
- upload
ie the plugin would define the skeleton for a build which produces
distributions and reports, which all the other plugins can build on.
Thoughts?
Adam
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