I think the best way would be to create a plugin for your code generator and have it add the output directory to the test sources in the project object.
On 8/19/07, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm honestly not sure what the best/right approach would be in this > situation. Off the top of my head, I have no idea if Maven can even handle > your requirements, at least not with a single execution. But I can tell you > what I might try... > > I would generate the java sources in the Maven test phase as you are > currently doing. Then have another Maven pom in the same basedir and specify > source location as ./target/generated (or where ever your new sources are > being generated), and output location as ./target2/. Then use "mvn -f > pom2.xml test" and Maven should pick up the new sources and basically > treat it as a completely second project that lives within your primary > project. > > Another perhaps more-Mavenized way of doing it would be generating the > java sources, then jarring them up using the assembly plugin, attach the > assembled jar to the build using the build-helper plugin, and install them > along with your primary jar into your local repo. Then in another project > with its own pom.xml file in another directory, utilize the dependency > plugin to unpack those sources into ./src (very early in the lifecycle), and > proceed as normal. But this means a few extra steps and is a bit of an > indirect approach to achieve the same results. > > Tell us a bit more about your situation or give us a URL where we can > download and play with your sources ourselves (if they're public) and > perhaps someone can come up with a working approach to your problem. Or > perhaps someone from the dev team will speak up with a better approach.... > > Wayne > > On 8/19/07, Luciano Resende <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have some unit tests that generate some java files in the maven test > > phase. > > How can I tell maven to now compile these files as source ? > > > > -- > > Luciano Resende > > Apache Tuscany Committer > > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > >
