[MNG-2216] Add default encodings section to POM

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3
• Component/s: FDPFC, POM::Encoding
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Trustin Lee
• Created: 07/Apr/06 21:52
• Updated: 08/Oct/23 19:45
• Resolved: 01/Jun/23 15:25

Description

Look at the attached example POM.

Do you see many duplicate configuration properties ('UTF-8') in it? and the names of properties are very inconsistent.

It would be great if:

1) Add a global section which specifies default encodings:

<defaultEncodings>
    <!-- Default: UTF-8 -->
    <inputEncoding>UTF-8</inputEncoding>
    <!-- Will be the same with inputEncoding if not specified. -->
    <outputEncoding>UTF-8</outputEncoding>
</defaultEncodings>

2) Make encoding properties in all plugins to be consistent and deprecate old properties. The default values could be:

inputEncoding = ${pom.encoding.input}
outputEncoding = ${pom.encoding.output}

so users can override the default settings easily.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-2932 Encoding chaos
• relates to: MNG-7763 Provide UTF-8 as a default value for project.build.sourceEncoding and project.reporting.outputEncoding
• relates to: MNG-2254 the encoding parameter in xml declaration of POM is ignored
• relates to: MNG-4149 Extend POM to support encoding parameter per (test) resource
• relates to: JXR-60 use ${project.build.sourceEncoding} as default value for "inputEncoding" parameter
• relates to: MCHANGES-71 need add template encoding to announcement-generate
• relates to: MCHECKSTYLE-95 Allow to configure file encoding for source files
• relates to: MCOMPILER-70 use ${project.build.sourceEncoding} as default value for "encoding" parameter
• relates to: MINVOKER-30 Allow to configure file encoding for verifications scripts
• relates to: MJAVADOC-182 use ${project.build.sourceEncoding} as default value for "encoding" parameter
• relates to: MPLUGIN-100 Allow customization of file encoding used for generated help goal
• relates to: MPLUGIN-101 Allow customization of file encoding used for mojo extraction
• relates to: MPMD-76 use ${project.build.sourceEncoding} as default value for "sourceEncoding" parameter
• relates to: MSITE-314 use ${project.build.sourceEncoding} as default value for "inputEncoding" parameter
• relates to: MRESOURCES-57 use ${project.build.sourceEncoding} as default value for "encoding" parameter
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Sub-Tasks

• Reporting Encoding Configuration: ${project.reporting.outputEncoding}: Reopened