On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:30, Martin van den Bemt wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Even though I am not a committer, I call a vote on this one..;)
>
> I am working on integration of Maven in Eclipse (and maybe later
> netbeans)
> One of the biggest problems is that I cannot ask Maven all the
> information about properties that you can set to override the default
> behaviour. Since there is property documentation in an xdocs xml file, I
> had a an idea :
> Move the property information to eg a properties.xml in a the format,
> which you can easily use to generate the documentation and to actually
> parse the file for generating a gui on the fly in an IDE.
> <properties>
> <group name="User Settings">
> <group-description>blah</group-description>
> <property>
> <name>lib.repo</name>
> <type>String/Dir/boolean</type>
> <optional>true</optional>
> <description>blahblah</description>
> </property>
> </group>
> </properties>
The only thing here I ask is that the same format that is used for the
project.xml file be used for this descriptor. This way betwixt can be
used in its default mode to map the descriptor to an object:
<mavenProperties>
<groups>
<group>
<name>User Settings</name>
<type>String</type>
<description>Yada yada</description>
</group>
</groups>
</mavenProperties>
Otherwise I think it's a good idea. And if you use this format you can
change it fairly easily as all you have to do is change the objects,
betwixt will do the rest.
> This is my general idea of the setup (naming conventions could be
> better, but since I don't have any brain, I leave that people with a
> brain)
> All the tags can be used for documentation generation, so I will not
> mention that at every point mentioned below.
> - I need the groupname and description to generate the tabs/settings
> pages for those properties.
> - I need the group-description for (online) help
> - I need the property name to know what to read (and where)
> - I need the type to determine what people can fill in
> - I need to need if the thing is optional.
> - I need to know the description to explain what the option is for
>
> This way I don't have to recode all the properties and doing work that
> is already been done, although in a bit of different way.
>
> Can someone please provide feedback for this, since I will not create
> this without review/discussion and to be said no to after I finish it.
> So if you think it is not the right solution : come up with another or
> better one , since this kind of stuff is really necessary for usefull
> maven IDE integration.
>
> I'll say to all : Let the voting begin ;)
>
> Mvgr,
> Martin
>
>
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