[MNG-7837] Maven blows up on nested <project> pom attributes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-7
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-8, 4.0.0
• Component/s: Bootstrap & Build
• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: Lenny Primak
• Created: 07/Jul/23 04:52
• Updated: 20/Oct/23 07:57
• Resolved: 18/Oct/23 06:21

Description

• This started happening in 4.0.0-alpha-7

When pom contains nested <project>, maven refuses to build:

% mvn clean
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs
[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]   
[ERROR]   The project (/Users/lprimak/Documents/dev/flowlogix/pom.xml) has 1 error
[ERROR]     Unrecognised tag: 'project' (position: START_TAG @1:205)  @ line 1, column 205 -> [Help 2]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the '-e' switch
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the '-X' switch to enable verbose output
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: 

 

Example:

...
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.commonjava.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>directory-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>directories</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>directory-of</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <configuration>
                <property>flowlogix.basedir</property>
                <project>
                    <groupId>com.flowlogix</groupId>
                    <artifactId>flowlogix</artifactId>
                </project>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
...
 

Reproducer: https://github.com/flowlogix/flowlogix

Thank you!

Issue Links

• is fixed by: MNG-7830 Switch from plexus-xml to stax / woodstox
• is related to: MNG-7878 ConsumerPom - modules from plugin configuration should be not stripped
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #277