I'm interested in that problem too. In the project below, we use
PlexusContainer to instantiate MavenProject class from pom file:
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/blob/master/dependencies/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/tools/opensource/dependencies/RepositoryUtility.java#L209
I hope there's a better way to achieve this.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 6:55 AM Andres Almiray <aalmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to launch Maven programmatically in such a way that I
> can get access to fully resolved Model and MavenProject instances, and not
> just for a single project but also for all projects that belong to a
> Reactor.
>
> At first I used this code
>
> try {
> FileReader reader = new FileReader(pom);
> MavenXpp3Reader mavenReader = new MavenXpp3Reader();
> return new MavenProject(mavenReader.read(reader));
> } catch (Exception e) {
> throw new IllegalArgumentException(e);
> }
>
> But of course that's not enough. Next I tried using the maven-model-builder
> APIs directly but not all references get resolved (such as parent POMs) as
> a custom ModelResolver is required and the default one is not intended to
> be used in standalone fashion.
>
> Ideally I would call some sort of embeddable Maven API that can give me the
> answers I seek, something like this
>
> MavenProject project = EmbeddableMaven.launch(propsOrFlags).file(pomFile);
>
> or alternatively something like
>
> MavenReactor reactor = EmbeddableMaven.launch(propsOrFlags).file(pomFile);
> for(MavenProject project : reactor.getProjects()) { /* do stuff */ }
>
> Of course I'm making up these types and method names as I do not know if
> something like this exist or not, hence why I'm asking here.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers
> Andres
>
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Regards,
Tomo
