On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Martin Gainty <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> so in other words execution with no goal bound.. will rollback to the 
> declared defaultGoal?http://maven.apache.org/pom.html
> (i wonder if perhaps the defaultGoal is incorrect for what i'm seeing in 
> surefire)
> thanks Steve ..and Happy New Year,
> Martin

Martin,

'fork' in the sense of a forked execution declared in plugin metadata
is completely different from what happens when surefire forks.



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> ..place long-winded disclaimer here.. > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 11:22:34 -0500
>> Subject: Re: A subtlety with forked executions, looking for advice
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
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>> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Stephen Connolly
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > if phase is specified then goal is unused was my reading of the docs when I
>> > read them (a while back and I am lazy and have not gone looking at/for the
>> > docs since then)
>>
>> thanks. This implies that a forked execution of a mojo had better not
>> depend on something produced in the reactor. I'm not sure that's
>> unreasonable, even if it painted me into a pretty small corner in the
>> license-maven-plugin due to my unwillingness to turn it into a
>> multi-module project.
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On 1 January 2013 15:01, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> My mystification just deepened.
>> >>
>> >> If @Execute only contains 'goal', and then the mojo is executed from
>> >> command line, all is well.
>> >>
>> >> If I add a 'phase=', then the command-line execution stops working.
>> >> That is, if I have both goal= and phase=, the goal seems to be
>> >> ignored. And since nothing in the pom explicitly binds the goal to the
>> >> phase, it never runs.
>> >>
>> >> Does this surprise anyone (else?)?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > In the license-maven-plugin, there is a goal called
>> >> 'aggregate-add-third-party'.
>> >> >
>> >> > until this morning, it was annotated with:
>> >> >
>> >> >  @Execute( goal = "add-third-party" )
>> >> >
>> >> > This caused a problem. The add-third-party Mojo can read data from
>> >> > dependencies. So, if module (a) attached a resource, and module (b)
>> >> > went to read that resource in add-third-party, it failed. Why?
>> >> >
>> >> > Well, 'add-third-party' is not part of a lifecycle. So forking it
>> >> > executes nothing else. So, the dependency wasn't there in the reactor.
>> >> >
>> >> > Even if, by the way, the dependency was attached in an earlier phase
>> >> > than the aggregate-add-third-party, it didn't help, since the fork
>> >> > happens in the aggregating project before the modules happen.
>> >> >
>> >> > One solution to this is to add phase = SOMETHING to that @Execute, so
>> >> > that the execution that produces the resource has somewhere to live.
>> >> > Since the default phase for aggregate-add-third-party of
>> >> > generate-resources, does generate-resources lead to a risk of
>> >> > something circular?
>> >> >
>> >> > I suppose that another would be to define an entire lifecycle, and
>> >> > thus create a phase just for the purpose of allowing things to happen
>> >> > that feed add-third-party. Now the plugin would need to be listed as
>> >> > an extension, which is a pain.
>> >> >
>> >> > Anyone have another suggestion?
>> >>
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