I'm just getting to grips with Maven for the first time, and having some
difficulties getting archetypes to add files to an existing project. If
I understand things correctly, archetypes can also be used to add files
to an existing project, as well as to create a new one from scratch.
This is controlled via the <allowPartial> element in the archetype.xml file.
First question: why do none of the core archetypes support partial
behaviour? It seems to make sense that I can use the quickstart
archetype to setup my initial project, then add web capabilities with
the webapp archetype, and then add site documentation with the site
archetype. Each of these archetypes creates discrete directories under
src that would seem to be able to co-exist with each other.
If I run...
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=test -DartifactId=test
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=test -DartifactId=test
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp
...it gives the following error...
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] test already exists - please run from a clean directory
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
[INFO]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Second question: does anyone have the allowPartial behaviour working in
an archetype (and are there any examples that I can look at)? I've tried
to setup some simple examples, but I always get the some error as above.
If you run any of the core archetypes from a clean Maven installation
(i.e. empty local repository), it seems to give the error before it
actually downloads the archetype, which suggests that this error is
generated by the plugin irrespective of any setting in the archetype.
I am using Maven 2.0 on Windows XP.
My apologies if I'm missing something blindingly obvious, any help would
be appreciated...
Alex.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
