"combine.children='append'" not being honored in <reporting/>
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Key: MNG-3660
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3660
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Inheritance and Interpolation, Plugins and Lifecycle, POM
Affects Versions: 2.0.9
Reporter: Brian Lalor
Attachments: maven_config_bug.tgz
I'm trying to combine multiple maven-javadoc-plugin configuration stanzas such
that child modules can append {{<link/>}} elements to those specified by the
parent. This supposedly can be done by adding the attribute
"{{combine.children='append'}}" to the {{<links/>}} element in the child
module's {{<configuration/>}} element, like so:
{code:xml}
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<links combine.children="append">
<link>http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/</link>
</links>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
{code}
What actually happens is that the child module's configuration reflects only
the single {{<link/>}}, and not any {{<link/>}} elements also defined in the
parent. The output of {{mvn help:effective-pom}} bears this out. Putting the
plugin configuration into the {{<build/>}} element instead of {{<reporting/>}}
shows the correct combination occurring (except that the report is obviously
not configured that way...).
The attached tarball contains a barebones multi-module project that shows this
bug, as well as the output of {{help:effective-pom}} in separate files. I've
also included the output of {{mvn -X help:effective-pom}} in the file
{{build.log}}.
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