Anton Tanasenko created MNG-5805:
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             Summary: Custom packaging types: configuring 
DefaultLifecycleMapping mojo executions
                 Key: MNG-5805
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5805
             Project: Maven
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Plugins and Lifecycle
            Reporter: Anton Tanasenko
            Priority: Minor


Currently, DefaultLifecycleMapping does not support mapping phases to goals 
with a custom configuration (see 
maven-core/src/main/resources/META-INF/plexus/default-bindings.xml). It is 
impossible to bind, say, an assembly plugin to 'package' phase within a custom 
packaging type, since assembly plugin requires a meaningful configuration to be 
set.

At my job, we have a number of poms, each serving a purpose of defining a 
lifecycle for a particular type of project (there's one for jar, a couple for 
wars and several more for other types of deployable artifacts).

Now that I somewhat understand maven's lifecycle, It seems natural to convert 
such poms to custom packaging types, leaving only a single parent with global 
config and pluginManagement. But it is currently impossible, since we are using 
mostly standard plugins (only occasional dedicated ones) to configure projects' 
lifecycles.

I did some digging around and put together a relatively straightforward change 
to maven-core: 
https://github.com/atanasenko/maven/commit/19f970b60f3fd8f7e0ba6ce9f74b892190125354?w=1

It both introduces support for specifying configuration and dependencies for 
mojo executions:
<install>
  <mojos>
    <mojo>
      <goal>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.4:install</goal>
      <confguration>...</confguration>
      <dependencies>...</dependencies>
    </mojo>
    <mojo>
      ...
    </mojo>
  </mojos>
</install>

as well as retains support for existing mapping syntax:
<install>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.4:install, 
...</install>

I will put together some its (as well as make sure that existing are running 
ok) and create a pull request for both. Also, there are a couple of changes 
that break API in org/apache/maven/lifecycle/Lifecycle.java and 
org/apache/maven/lifecycle/mapping/Lifecycle.java. How critical is it to 
mantain compatibility in those two?




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