[MPLUGINTESTING-59] Documentation for plugin testing uses deprecated mvn archetype:create which not work.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0, 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Labels: documentation
• Assignee: Sylwester Lachiewicz
• Reporter: Benjamin Herbert
• Created: 23/May/16 13:25
• Updated: 22/Sep/24 15:14
• Resolved: 18/Jun/22 14:44

Description

The page https://maven.apache.org/plugin-testing/maven-plugin-testing-harness/getting-started/index.html shows an example which leads to an error message.

The command is:

mvn archetype:create \
-DgroupId=org.apache.maven.plugin.my \
-DartifactId=maven-my-plugin \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-mojo

This leads to the following error message.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.4:create (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: Unable to parse configuration of mojo org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.4:create for parameter #: Cannot create instance of interface org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository: org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository.<init>() -> [Help 1]

The documentation states, that the create mojo should be used instead:

mvn archetype:generate \
-DgroupId=org.apache.maven.plugin.my \
-DartifactId=maven-my-plugin \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-mojo

instead.

If this is true, the documentation should be updated accordingly