[jira] (MNG-5563) Ensuring only the available parameters are allowed

["Savas Ali Tokmen (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Savas Ali Tokmen created MNG-5563:
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             Summary: Ensuring only the available parameters are allowed
                 Key: MNG-5563
                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5563
             Project: Maven 2 & 3
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: POM
            Reporter: Savas Ali Tokmen


I am one of the owners of Codehaus CARGO, which has a Maven2/Maven3 plugin; and would have an improvement request with regards to how parameters are managed.

Currently, what happens is that if a user unwillingly puts a parameter in the wrong place then the plugin execution continues as is. One of the latest such issues one of the users has had can be found on http://cargo.996258.n3.nabble.com/Maven-plugin-and-javaagent-tp18075.html

As an example, I can write the below POM and build still works (even thought the MOJO has no parameter called "foo"):

{noformat}
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
    <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.6</version>
    <configuration>
      <foo>
        bar
      </foo>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>
{noformat}

It would be good for the MOJO developer to be ablo instruct by MOJO to fail if there is an unknown parameter in the configuration.

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