[DOXIASITETOOLS-329] Expose lastModification date in addition to publishDate in Velocity Context

• Type: Improvement
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Site renderer
• Assignee: Konrad Windszus
• Reporter: Konrad Windszus
• Created: 06/Feb/24 14:22
• Updated: 15/Apr/24 14:32

Description

Currently only the published date (the same for the whole site) is available in the Velocity context (https://github.com/apache/maven-doxia-sitetools/blob/5fe4a4c5359e6a23b78f385e15f77767cadaee99/doxia-site-renderer/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/doxia/siterenderer/DefaultSiteRenderer.java#L495). It would be useful to also populate the lastModification date of the doxia source file (if available).

That way one could expose a more useful date for end-users (as the publish date rarely is equal to the date when a page was last touched). Obviously for Sinks/Documents not based on Doxia source files this is not available.

Issue Links

• blocks: MSKINS-241 Support emitting the lastModification instead of the lastPublication date (if available)
• relates to: SCM-914 InfoItem.lastChangedDate is leaky abstraction
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #136