[MASSEMBLY-649] Assembly descriptor needs <sourceBinaries> (or similar) to go with <binaries> and <sources>

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nick Williams
• Created: 09/Apr/13 15:15
• Updated: 13/Feb/18 19:46
• Resolved: 13/Feb/18 19:46

Description

Consider the following project structure:

- parent
   - pom.xml
   - assembly
      - pom.xml
   - module1
      - pom.xml
   - module2
      - pom.xml
   - module3
      - pom.xml

As recommended here, the "assembly" sub-project exists to run the assembly plugin during package phase and depends on module1, module2, and module3 to achieve this.

Using <moduleSet>/<binaries> I can include all of the compiled binaries from module1, module2, and module3 in the assembly. Using <moduleSet>/<sources> I can likewise include all of the sources, but the problem is that <sources> actually includes the entire source directories including POM and project files for each module, which is not always desired.

Modules 1-3 in this case use the maven-source-plugin to create source binaries ([artifactId]-[version]-sources.jar). I want to include those source JARs in the assembly. However, I cannot do this with <moduleSet> or with <dependencySet>. I have to add a <fileSet> for each module's lone source JAR, like so:

    <fileSet>
        <directory>../module1/target</directory>
        <includes><include>*-sources.jar</include></includes>
        <outputDirectory>/sources</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>
    <fileSet>
        <directory>../module2/target</directory>
        <includes><include>*-sources.jar</include></includes>
        <outputDirectory>/sources</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>
    <fileSet>
        <directory>../module3/target</directory>
        <includes><include>*-sources.jar</include></includes>
        <outputDirectory>/sources</outputDirectory>
    </fileSet>

This gets tedious with many modules (and really shouldn't be necessary). We either need a <sourceBinaries> option that works similarly to <binaries> except on source JARs, or <binaries> needs to be changed to optionally support source JARs.