[MNG-8343] Use OSGi Converter instead of Plexus for Mojo parameter conversion

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x
• Component/s: Plugins and Lifecycle
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Konrad Windszus
• Created: 22/Oct/24 13:10
• Updated: 23/Oct/24 23:42

Description

Currently (even in Maven 4) the API being used for converting from a String to another type for Mojo parameters is the Plexus Configurator API. I propose to switch to something which is better maintained and documented.
There is the OSGi Converter Specification and a default implementation at https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.osgi/org.osgi.util.converter/1.0.9 which supports most of the conversions already supported by Plexus Configuration API out of the box.
The implementation does not require any additional dependencies.
In addition it supports custom converters.