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rslemos
rslemos

Reputation: 2731

In a maven project, is it possible to use a plugin just built within the same project?

Suppose you have some sort of input files which are to be processed in some custom way (even the file format is very particular to the package of files in question).

To process them I decide to make a maven plugin, which happens to be useful only in the context of these files.

Is it possible to have them all (the afore mentioned files and source code for the plugin) in one project, build the plugin, run the plugin over the input files and collect its output as the output of this project?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 333

Answers (1)

Eugene Kuleshov
Eugene Kuleshov

Reputation: 31795

Short answer is you can't, because Maven resolves plugin classpath on start.

However you can create separate modules, first being a plugin and second would use that plugin to process files. Both modules can be invoked from parent pom.

Upvotes: 1

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