Add a mojo that validates a multimodule project's parent tree
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Key: MVERSIONS-103
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MVERSIONS-103
Project: Maven 2.x Versions Plugin
Issue Type: Wish
Reporter: Bryan Loofbourrow
Priority: Minor
The ask here is for a mojo which, when run, would product a dump of all pom.xml
files, in the project tree extending from the current directory, for which the
specified parent version does not match the version of the actual parent pom in
source. Whether such a dump is to the console, or to a file in target, is
immaterial to me, as long as the output can be regex'ed to discover a list of
offending poms.
A page of the plugin documentation
(http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/examples/update-child-modules.html)
says that you will get a Maven build error in this case, but that is only true
if the referenced pom version does not exist in a repository. It is the case
when the referenced pom version does exist that I'm interested in.
For background, here's my situation:
I have a large, multimodule project. Not only does it release periodically, but
it also branches, so that different instances of the project, of course with
distinct version trees, exist on multiple SCM branches. We have internal tools
to manage the merging of changes between branches. As you can imagine,
performing branch integration, and making sure that you get the changes you
want, while keeping the appropriate version tree for the branch you're
integrating to, is fairly complex. Sometimes it goes wrong. When it does, it's
highly probable that any incorrect parent version references do exist in our
corporate repository -- they are, after all, built on the branches on which
they originated. So the Maven build will not catch this sort of thing.
It would be nice to have a tool that could tell me when the parent version tree
of my build is inconsistent, and it seems like something within the scope of
what the versions plugin is trying to accomplish. Thanks for reading.
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