Actually, I'll add my comments to MNG-945
Brett Porter wrote:
>Good point. We do need this. What should happen is the report have some
>way to indicate whether it generated something or not. It should always
>be called, but if there aren't any sources it shouldn't generate and the
>site plugin should not include it in the menu.
>
>Can you file it in JIRA?
>
>- Brett
>
>Bellingard Fabrice wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>While migrating a Maven plugin (taglist), I've encountered the following
>>case.
>>
>>I have a root project with several Java modules. In my root project, I add
>>the taglist plugin in the reporting section so that every Java module can
>>have the report generated when "site:site" is called.
>>The problem is that when I do "m2 site:site" on my root project, the taglist
>>plugin is activated for the Java modules as well as for the root project.
>>But the root project as no source files, so the report should not exist
>>(that could also be the case if I had an Ear sub-module for instance). The
>>problem is that ${reports} in the "site.xml" file generates a link to this
>>report, may the report be generated or not.
>>
>>I've looked to some other report plugins: the Javadoc plugin doesn't create
>>any files, so the link is broken, and the PMD plugin generates an almost
>>empty page, which is useless (when there's no source file, those kind of
>>plugins shouldn't do anything and should not be listed in the report
>>section).
>>
>>Is there a way to handle that as for now? (like an API for unregistering the
>>report plugin so that it doesn't appear in the Reports menu) Or is it
>>currently a limitation?
>>Maybe I should not put the taglist plugin (and Javadoc and PMD) in the
>>reporting section of the root project, but then I would have to do it in
>>every module...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Fabrice.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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