Re: Maven assembler plugin - How to avoid duplicating configurations in assembler descriptors?

[Stevo Slavić <ss...@gmail.com>]

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/single/using-components.html

Regards,
Stevo.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Jaikiran <ja...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a project org.myapp:proj which is a jar artifact. This project is
> configured to use maven-assembler-plugin to create a custom artifact (let's
> say proj-client1.jar). The descriptor configuration xml (let's call it
> client1-assembler.xml) used for this assembler plugin looks like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
>  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
> http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.0.0.xsd"
> >
>  <id>clien1</id>
>  <formats>
>    <format>jar</format>
>  </formats>
>  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
>  <fileSets>
>    <fileSet>
>      <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
>      <excludes>
>        <exclude>blah.xml</exclude>
>      </excludes>
>      <outputDirectory>packages</outputDirectory>
>    </fileSet>
>  </fileSets>
>  <dependencySets>
>    <dependencySet>
>
> <outputFileNameMapping>${artifactId}.${extension}</outputFileNameMapping>
>      <includes>
>        <include>ant-contrib:ant-contrib</include>
>        <include>org.myapp.abc:xyz:jar</include>
>
>
> Now for this same project i need to generate another artifact
> proj-client2.jar which does the exact same thing as the descriptor in
> client1 *and also* adds its own set of libraries in the resultant artifact.
>
> So a very simple way to achieve this would be to copy-paste the contents of
> the client1-assembler.xml and create a client2-assembler.xml. The
> client2-assembler.xml will then also have its own custom configurations.
> The
> assembler plugin can then use this as:
>
>           <plugin>
>                    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
>                    <version>2.2-beta-1</version>
>                    <executions>
>                      <execution>
>                        <id>make-assembly</id>
>                        <phase>package</phase>
>                        <goals>
>                          <goal>single</goal>
>                        </goals>
>                      </execution>
>                    </executions>
>                    <configuration>
>                      <descriptors>
>
> <descriptor>src/main/resources/client1-assembler.xml</descriptor>
>
> <descriptor>src/main/resources/client2-assembler.xml</descriptor>
>                      </descriptors>
>
>
> However, copy/paste from client1-assembler.xml to client2-assembler.xml
> just
> leads to duplicacy and maintenance nightmare (someone would have to ensure
> that whatever changes happen to client1-assembler.xml is applied manually
> even to client2-assembler.xml).
>
> Is there a way i can avoid this duplicacy? Something on the lines of
> client2-assembler.xml "referencing" or "inheriting" from
> client1-assembler.xml. Is this possible or anything similar?
>
>
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Re: Maven assembler plugin - How to avoid duplicating configurations in assembler descriptors?

[Jaikiran <ja...@yahoo.co.in>]

Excellent! Thanks for the quick response - i had been trying a lot of
different ways of doing this, since this morning :)

-Jaikiran


Stevo Slavic wrote:
> 
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/single/using-components.html
> 
> Regards,
> Stevo.
> 
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