On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote: > On 10/12/2011, at 9:44 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > >> On the substance of the original problem: >> >> user runs 'mvn site:site' >> >> site:site finds javadoc and checkstyle, trigger a forked lifecycle to >> generate sources. >> >> In this particular case, 'generate-sources' in module 'b' depends on >> running out through 'process-classes' in module 'a'. b has a >> compile-scope dependency on agroup:aartifact:aversion:wsdl. > > The Javadoc plugin specifies this: > > @execute phase="generate-sources" > > So there isn't a way to convince it to do something else in the forked > lifecycle. > >> >> Is the lifecycle calculator supposed to figure this out? It has no way >> to tell which execution in 'a' produces >> agroup:aartifact:aversion:wsdl, so it has no way to tell that >> 'process-classes' is going to be required. > > This is the more fundamental question that would need to be addressed - > there's no way to express that in Maven right now. > >> >> However, adding 'process-classes' to the top-level command line >> doesn't help, apparently because it doesn't travel from the initial >> execution plan to the forked execution plan. >> >> Once you have the fix I made today, you can get around this by running >> 'mvn install' to stuff the wsdl artifact into the local repo before >> running site:site. >> >> But if the intent is to avoid this requirement, how is it supposed to work? > > Perhaps an alternative would be to additionally bind that generation to the > pre-site phase in 'a' as well. Not sure if that'll make it available, but > worth a try. That would require running "mvn site" instead of "mvn site:site" > (which is standard anyway). > > Otherwise, I think you're faced with documenting "mvn install" without doing > major lifecycle surgery.
Brett, Thank you very much for the detailed analysis. In the case at hand, running 'mvn install' before 'mvn site' is really not onerous, and it works fine -- now that I fixed the problems with the ReactorReader. --benson > > - Brett > > -- > Brett Porter > br...@apache.org > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter > http://twitter.com/brettporter > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
