Tobago APT plugin question

[Wendy Smoak <ws...@gmail.com>]

We're using the maven-apt-plugin over at Struts, and are having
trouble with it not finding the configured factory.

We have a struts-annotations jar that contains
TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory.  When this jar is in compile scope, all
is well.

However, I think I should be able to define this dependency either in
<build><extensions> or else in <plugin><dependencies>.  If I try that,
I get:

warning: Specified AnnotationProcessorFactory, 'org.apache.struts.annotations.ta
glib.apt.TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory', not found on search path.
warning: No annotation processors found but annotations present.

What is the 'search path' here, and why would the plugin not see the
class in a build extension or a dependency of the plugin itself?

(For now I'll put the jar back in compile scope and mark it optional.)

Thanks,
Wendy

Re: Tobago APT plugin question

[Bernd Bohmann <be...@atanion.com>]

Hello Wendy,

this is on my wish list.

See:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOBAGO-130

I try to implement this but this works only if fork is enabled 
(Classloader).

Regards

Bernd


Wendy Smoak wrote:
> We're using the maven-apt-plugin over at Struts, and are having
> trouble with it not finding the configured factory.
> 
> We have a struts-annotations jar that contains
> TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory.  When this jar is in compile scope, all
> is well.
> 
> However, I think I should be able to define this dependency either in
> <build><extensions> or else in <plugin><dependencies>.  If I try that,
> I get:
> 
> warning: Specified AnnotationProcessorFactory, 
> 'org.apache.struts.annotations.ta
> glib.apt.TLDAnnotationProcessorFactory', not found on search path.
> warning: No annotation processors found but annotations present.
> 
> What is the 'search path' here, and why would the plugin not see the
> class in a build extension or a dependency of the plugin itself?
> 
> (For now I'll put the jar back in compile scope and mark it optional.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Wendy
>