[UIMA-2953] jcasgen-maven-plugin needs to support patterns

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1SDK
• Component/s: jcasgen-maven-plugin
• Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 31/May/13 12:39
• Updated: 02/Jul/13 15:21
• Resolved: 31/May/13 17:23

Description

With the old JCasGenPomFriendly class in uimaFIT, it was possible to select the descriptors for which JCas wrappers should be generated using a wildcard pattern:

<configuration>
  <mainClass>org.apache.uima.fit.util.JCasGenPomFriendly</mainClass>
  <arguments>
    <argument>file:${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/org/apache/uima/fit/type/**/*.xml</argument>
    <argument>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/jcasgen</argument>
  </arguments>
  <classpathScope>test</classpathScope>
</configuration>

With the current jcasgen-maven-plugin, only a single descriptor file is possible. This is quite inconvenient for users. At least there should be the same possibility of specifying a wildcard pattern as in the JCasGenPomFriendly. Even better would be, to combine that with the commonly used include/exclude pattern used in many Maven plugins, e.g.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.uima</groupId>
  <artifactId>jcasgen-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <goals>
	<goal>generate</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <typeSystemIncludes>
          <typeSystemInclude>src/main/resources/types/**/*.xml</typeSystemInclude>
        </typeSystemIncludes>
        <typeSystemExcludes>
          <typeSystemExclude>src/main/resources/types/**/nojcas/*.xml</typeSystemExclude>
        </typeSystemExcludes>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Issue Links

• blocks: UIMA-2471 add a jcasgen-maven-plugin (and m2e connector)
• blocks: UIMA-2871 Remove JCasGenPomFriendly in favor of jcasgen-maven-plugin