[CXF-7674] Java2Wadl maven plugin requires explicit <classResourceNames> element - even if base packages specified

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.2
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.3, 3.2.4
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Labels: java2wadl maven

Environment

Maven home: /home/lyor/Software/apache-maven-3.5.2
Java version: 1.8.0_161, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-5.b14.fc27.x86_64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.15.6-300.fc27.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Freeman Yue Fang
• Reporter: Lyor Goldstein
• Created: 12/Mar/18 11:55
• Updated: 17/Apr/18 00:56
• Resolved: 13/Mar/18 02:15

Description

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
    <artifactId>cxf-java2wadl-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.2.2</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>generate-wadl</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>java2wadl</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>process-classes</phase>
        </execution>
    <executions>
    <configuration>
        <attachWadl>true</attachWadl>
             <!-- Bug: if not specified (even if empty) causes exceptions - even though base packages specified -->
         <classResourceNames />
        <basePackages>foo.bar.baz.</basePackages>
         <outputFileName>${project.artifactId}</outputFileName>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

If classResourceNames is not specified then:

mvn clean install
...
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.cxf:cxf-java2wadl-plugin:3.2.2:java2wadl (generate-wadl) on project c-application-web: The parameters 'classResourceNames' for goal org.apache.cxf:cxf-java2wadl-plugin:3.2.2:java2wadl are missing or invalid