[ARCHETYPE-371] Add a command line argument to filter/limit the archetypes returned by mvn archetype:generate

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: Plugin

Environment

Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)
Maven home: /usr/local/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_24, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Default locale: fr_FR, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.35.12-90.fc14.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

• Assignee: Olivier Lamy
• Reporter: Fred Bricon
• Created: 30/Apr/11 14:05
• Updated: 09/Jul/11 11:37
• Resolved: 09/Jul/11 11:37

Description

Currently, running mvn archetype:generate returns 390 archetypes, on my machine.
By default, th window buffer of my terminal isn't set big enough so I can see the first archetypes in the list.

So, I think it would be really useful to have a CLI arg allowing us to filter the archetypes containing a string.
Ex: running

mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=webapp

would return only the archetypes having webapp in their artifactId.

What do you think?