Thankyou Thomas, that is good to know. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 8:36:22 PM UTC+11, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 10:19:26 AM UTC+2, Rob Newton wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> When I edit an Elemento template HTML file and do a mvn compile it won't >> regenerate the template implementation class source file. Is there some >> maven pom config and/or command I can use to say rerun the elemento >> annotation processor without doing a mvn clean or touching the template >> abstract class source file ? >> > > I don't use Elemento, but AFAIU the problem lies in how annotation > processors work and how Elemento uses them, and how the > maven-compiler-plugin works (it would be the same with other build tools > though). > Build tools don't expect that the result of compilation changes based on a > resource file (because resources are meant to be bundled with the compiled > classes, with side-effects at runtime rather than compile-time), and > annotation processors can indicate which Java element triggered the > generation of some file, and only Java elements, not resources. > Consequently, the maven-compiler-plugin (rightfully) thinks it has nothing > to do if Java source files haven't changed. > > Annotation processors are *not* a good fit for this kind of work; > non-Java templates should be processed by generators to generate Java > source that will then be fed to the Java compiler (and possibly trigger > annotation processing). > > In the mean time, you'll have to "touch" the class responsible for the > processing of the template to trigger a recompile. >
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