[MASSEMBLY-307] Better Validation of Assembly Descriptors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Assignee: John Dennis Casey
• Reporter: Brad Harper
• Created: 11/Apr/08 13:30
• Updated: 28/Sep/10 15:28
• Resolved: 23/Sep/10 17:21

Description

Running 'assembly:assembly' from the command line produces

[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------
[INFO] The assembly id null is used more than once.

The same descriptor can be used successfully via 'assembly:attached', either via the command line or within a maven build lifecycle. The descriptor doesn't specify <id>assembly-name</id>.

Per John Casey on [e-mail], "it looks like we need to improve the validation of descriptors. None of the assembly mojos should really work without an assembly id".

Descriptor validation should be improved, with self-explanatory error messages when the validation fails.