[MPLUGIN-186] Plugins with no mojos lead to exception and failure in PluginReport

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8
• Fix Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: Plugin Plugin
• Assignee: Benson Margulies
• Reporter: Benson Margulies
• Created: 02/Sep/11 08:05
• Updated: 02/Sep/11 08:32
• Resolved: 02/Sep/11 08:32

Description

If a plugin has no mojos, because it exists purely to add a lifecycle, a backtrace and failure reports:

I'm just supplying the tail of it.

Caused by: org.apache.maven.reporting.MavenReportException: Error extracting plugin descriptor: 'No mojo definitions were found for plugin: org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-maven-plugin.'
at org.apache.maven.plugin.plugin.PluginReport.executeReport(PluginReport.java:231)
at org.apache.maven.reporting.AbstractMavenReport.generate(AbstractMavenReport.java:135)
at org.apache.maven.plugins.site.ReportDocumentRenderer.renderDocument(ReportDocumentRenderer.java:228)
... 25 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.InvalidPluginDescriptorException: No mojo definitions were found for plugin: org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-maven-plugin.
at org.apache.maven.tools.plugin.scanner.DefaultMojoScanner.populatePluginDescriptor(DefaultMojoScanner.java:121)
at org.apache.maven.plugin.plugin.PluginReport.executeReport(PluginReport.java:219)
... 27 more