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ValeryC
ValeryC

Reputation: 486

Invoking maven plugin as a part of build lifecycle

I’m new to maven. I’m trying to integrate a plugin into my build so that it would execute automatically as part of phase execution.

Say I want to plug into clean lifecycle phase.

The mojo I’m using was annotated specifying that it should be injected into clean phase:

/**
* 
 * @goal clean
 * @phase clean
 * @requiresProject
 */

public class CleanMojo extends AbstractSCAMojo {

This mojo was installed following instructions in Using Plugin Tools Java5 Annotations. I added plugin to my pom.xml: 

<build>
   <plugins>
        <plugin>
        <groupId>myclean.plugin</groupId>
        <artifactId>myclean-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <configuration>
            <logfile>C:/temp/clean.log</logfile>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

In my understanding having lifecycle binding in Mojo java code eliminates the need to provide executions in build-plugins-plugin. Is that correct?

I was expecting that after invoking mvn clean configured above myclean.plugin:myclean-maven-plugin will be executed as part of the clean goal, but nothing happens besides regular maven clean procedure.

When pom is changed to specify executions myclean.plugin:myclean-maven-plugin is invoked so I’m certain mojo code doesn’t contain blocking errors – this is just a question of configuration.

There is probably something more I need to specify to make plugin executed automatically (i.e. without specifying executions), but what?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 675

Answers (1)

Raghuram
Raghuram

Reputation: 52645

As per the documentation, you should be adding the following annotation before the class definition:

@Mojo(name = "clean", defaultPhase = LifecyclePhase.clean)

@goal and @phase are for javadocs.

Upvotes: 1

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