Most plugins have a hook that you can add as a prereq (although not on a preGoal - you'd need to do that differently by preGoal calling attainGoal on the content).
Eg. War:load does nothing but bring the plugin into action. This is likely to change in the future. - Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: khote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 1 September 2003 3:43 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: plugin.jelly variables not available in <postGoal> > > > I can use > ${pom.getPluginContext('maven-WHATEVER-plugin').getVariable('X > XX')} only if that WHATEVER plugin was invoked prior to the > pre or post Goal I'm working with. I think it has to load > that stuff from the plugin's project.properties, I don't yet > know of a way to "easily" load those properties files. > > I was using the xdoc plugin, and for some reason wanted to > include the target/docs in my WAR. Since it's always > convenient to use the default properties when they work, I > wanted to use the xdoc properties. If I run: > > $ maven xdoc > $ maven war > > rather than: > > $ maven xdoc war > > then the xdoc properties would not be available to my > war:webapp postGoal using the > > ${pom.getPluginContext('maven-xdoc-plugin').getVariable('maven > .xdoc.dest.dir > ')} (or whatever it was). > > What if I have several versions of the plugin, including a > SNAPSHOT? Maven seems to know how to load the latest and > greatest, perhaps I'd have to write a plugin to do all that > for me: maven-loadUninvokedPluginProperties-plugin > or some such. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Maven Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 9:53 PM > Subject: Re: plugin.jelly variables not available in <postGoal> > > > > Does ${pom.getPluginContext('maven-war-plugin').getVariable('XXX')} > > help? > > -- > > dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting > > Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ > > > > > > "khote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/08/2003 10:25:26 AM: > > > > > I'm playing around with a postGoal for webapp ... > > > > > > <postGoal name="war:webapp"> > > > .... > > > </postGoal> > > > > > > I'm copying the docs directory generated by the xdoc > plugin into my .war > > > > > > I notice in the plugin documentation that certain values such as > > > maven.war.webapp.dir have default values. I look in the > > maven-war-plugin's > > > plugin.jelly and see where they are set. Yet these values are not > > available > > > to my maven.xml postGoal, in fact they have no value at > all by the time > > they > > > get there. I have to manually set them in > > > project.properties/build.properties or even reset them to the same > > values in > > > my maven.xml postGoal. It would be nice if I could use > the expected > > > defaults in postGoals, is there a setting somewhere that > can take care > > of > > > this? > > > > > > K > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
