[jira] (MPLUGIN-247) Allow getting mojo/parameter description/since/deprecated from annotations

["Alex Hvostov (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Alex Hvostov created MPLUGIN-247:
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             Summary: Allow getting mojo/parameter description/since/deprecated from annotations
                 Key: MPLUGIN-247
                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPLUGIN-247
             Project: Maven 2.x Plugin Tools
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: maven-plugin-annotations
    Affects Versions: 3.2
            Reporter: Alex Hvostov
            Priority: Minor
         Attachments: extra-annotations.diff

The attached patch adds annotations {{@Description}}, {{@Since}}, and {{@DeprecatedBecause}}, which can be used instead of Javadoc comments for describing a Mojo and its parameters.

My use-case for this feature is writing Maven plugins in Scala. This language supports annotations, but a Java parser will obviously not be able to extract description/since/deprecated information from Scala source files. (There is another {{plugin-tools}} implementation specifically for writing Scala plugins, which has its own set of annotations, but it is buggy, incomplete, and not under active development.)

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