[MJAVADOC-267] Allow changing the reportOutputDirectory from the commandline

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.1
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Siveton Vincent
• Reporter: Dirk Olmes
• Created: 05/Oct/09 12:15
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 14/Oct/09 07:21

Description

We run the javadoc:aggregate task from the CI server to publish javadocs for a certain release. It's not possible now to specifiy the reportOutputDirectory from the commandline by running

mvn -DreportOutputDirectory=/dest/dir javadoc:aggregate

Instead, you have to put this config in a profile/property which exposes too much environment specific info in the pom.

The attached simple patch allows for specifying the reportOutputDirectory on the cmdline while preserving existing behaviour.