[MNG-3880] package phase devided into more specific phases

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
• Component/s: Plugins and Lifecycle
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Anders Kristian Andersen
• Created: 01/Dec/08 04:50
• Updated: 17/Dec/08 22:45
• Resolved: 17/Dec/08 22:45

Description

Currently the command mvn package will produce a zipped result file like xx.war or xxx.jar

So I belive it must always be...

I suggest that the phase is devided into multiple pre phases like:

package-copy --> copies files to target/xxx-war (the prezipped directory structure)
package-manifest --> generates the manifest to be packed into the zipped result
package-maven --> generates the maven META-INF/maven files
package-compress --> zips the target/xxx-war into the file target/xxx-war.war

The reasoning for these suggestions is that I had a situation where I had to add more files into the unpacked result.
This ended up more jobbi than I had thought because I had to manage the manifest, maven and compress as well.

Best regards
/Anders

PS: My sample is a Weblogic Integration Problem with task weblogic.ant.taskdefs.build.AnnotationManifestTask
The task will go through all classes and jars in the result and make a kind of index and place the index into META-INF.

My code got ugly....
I had to run the task yes, ofcause..
But I had to do much more than I hoped.
1) MANIFEST.MF (maven generates it under the final ZIP process) I had to steal it from mavens ZIP
2) META-INF/maven/.... (Maven also generates it under the final ZIP process). I had to steal this as well
3) the package phase will do the compress as well. I had to zip again !!! (Maybe I could just update existing zip?, but i did not choose that)

If I had multiple steps in the package phase I could have made this "customer-plugin" easier...

Here is the ugly code

<build-manifests moduleDir="${staging.dir}"
searchClasspathRef="annotation.manifest.search.path"
classpathRef="annotation.manifest.class.path"
verbose="false"
version=""
stagingDir="${project.build.directory}/manifest-work"/>

<unzip src="${staging.dir}.${project.packaging}"
dest="${staging.dir}">
<patternset>
<include name="META-INF/*/.*"/>
</patternset>
</unzip>

<delete dir="${staging.dir}/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/" />
<delete file="${staging.dir}.${project.packaging}" />
<zip destfile="${staging.dir}.${project.packaging}" encoding="UTF8" whenempty="create">
<fileset dir="${staging.dir}"/>
</zip>

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-2097 adding a phase called prepare-package