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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ARCHETYPE-487: ------------------------------------------ GitHub user m-ryan opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/maven-archetype/pull/7 ARCHETYPE-487 Add input validation for required properties defined in… This pull request implements the following new feature : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARCHETYPE-487 You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/m-ryan/maven-archetype master Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/maven-archetype/pull/7.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #7 ---- commit 178dc478b801067bcda386d2a44d097bf89e15f4 Author: Manuel Ryan <r...@shamu.ch> Date: 2015-09-04T11:47:43Z ARCHETYPE-487 Add input validation for required properties defined in artifact descriptor ---- > Input validation for required properties defined in artifact descriptor > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARCHETYPE-487 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARCHETYPE-487 > Project: Maven Archetype > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Archetypes, Generator, Plugin > Reporter: Manuel Ryan > Priority: Minor > > Add the possibility to define validation regular expressions for required > properties in artifact descriptors. > Use the regular expressions to validate user input (and ask the user to try > again if the expression doesn't match) > here's an example of a property that is required by the archetype to be only > lower case alphabet characters: > --- in archetype-metadata.xml : > <requiredProperty key="username"> > <validationRegex>^[a-z]*$</validationRegex> > </requiredProperty> > --- at prompt : > Define value for property 'username' (should match expression '^[a-z]*$'): > John > Value does not match the expression, please try again: john > Define value for property... -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)