[MNG-5380] Cannot preserve whitespace in Maven plugin configuration

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9, 2.2.1, 3.0, 3.0.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Plugin API
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Laird Nelson
• Created: 12/Sep/11 12:54
• Updated: 06/Jan/22 17:29
• Resolved: 21/Nov/12 16:19

Description

This bug may be filed in the wrong place; for that I apologize in advance.

My Maven plugin configuration (which I think is parsed and implemented by Plexus) does not preserve leading or trailing (or only) whitespace content.

A (mapped-to-String) configuration element like this:

<suffix>   Hello   </suffix>

results in the string value "Hello" (no leading or trailing space). The same value is produced by any one of the following constructions:

<suffix><![CDATA[   Hello   ]]></suffix>

<suffix xml:space="preserve">   Hello   </suffix>

I believe this is a shortcoming of the Plexus XML configuration machinery.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-5166 settings.xml boolean values not be honored
• relates to: MNG-5336 Descriptor Reference for settings.xml is incorrect
• relates to: MRELEASE-748 trailing whitespace is stripped from scmCommentPrefix