[MJAVADOC-285] "combine.children='append'" not being honored in <reporting/>

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brian Lalor
• Created: 09/Jul/08 15:39
• Updated: 01/Aug/11 15:06
• Resolved: 01/Aug/11 15:06

Description

I'm trying to combine multiple maven-javadoc-plugin configuration stanzas such that child modules can append <link/> elements to those specified by the parent. This supposedly can be done by adding the attribute "combine.children='append'" to the <links/> element in the child module's <configuration/> element, like so:

    <reporting>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <links combine.children="append">
                        <link>http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/</link>
                    </links>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </reporting>

What actually happens is that the child module's configuration reflects only the single <link/>, and not any <link/> elements also defined in the parent. The output of mvn help:effective-pom bears this out. Putting the plugin configuration into the <build/> element instead of <reporting/> shows the correct combination occurring (except that the report is obviously not configured that way...).

The attached tarball contains a barebones multi-module project that shows this bug, as well as the output of help:effective-pom in separate files. I've also included the output of mvn -X help:effective-pom in the file build.log.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-3811 Report plugins don't inherit configuration