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  1. Maven Help Plugin
  2. MPH-205

Handling empty elements

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 3.4.0
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    • effective-settings
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    Description

      When i needed a settings.xml file in the past I would copy the code from
      https://maven.apache.org/settings.html
      https://maven.apache.org/ref/4.0.0-alpha-5/maven-settings/settings.html
       
      and replace the self-closing tag of whichever section I needed - typically servers, mirrors and profiles. The other tags would remain, like "<localRepository/>"
       
      With Maven 3.9.0 the empty/self-closing tag was ignored.
       
      In Maven 4.0.0-alpha-1 the value is removed/replaced, resulting in the local repository directory set to ${pwd}.
      This is the case for settings.xml (what about toolchains.xml?) but not pom.xml
       
      With Maven 4.0.0-alpha-5, and I guess https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7678
      the behaviour has changed back to that of Maven 3 - an empty tag is simply ignored, it doesn't override.
      But while the build is successful, mvn help:effective-settings now fails with

      Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.4.0:effective-settings failed: Cannot invoke "org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.Xpp3Dom.getDom()" because "configuration" is null

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