Hi Matt,

Thanks a lot for your extensive bug report including sample project. Could
you please create a bug in Jira? [1]
It will make it easier to pick up the issue and assign the potential fix to
a future release.

Regards, Martin

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/ARCHETYPE/issues/

Op do 27 aug. 2020 om 21:41 schreef Matthew Compton <[email protected]>:

> Hello all,
>
> The recently released version 3.2.0 of the Maven Archetype Plugin has
> broken an archetype I created. I have confirmed my archetype still works
> with version 3.1.2 of the plugin but my team and I normally run "mvn
> archetype:generate …” just so we don’t have to specify a particular version
> of the plugin, but now Maven will pick up the 3.2.0 version of the plugin
> and fail. I am aware that using "mvn
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:3.1.2:generate …” will work
> around the problem, but I’d still like to fix my archetype to work with the
> latest version of the plugin.
>
> The problem appears to be that something has changed with how the class
> path/resources are setup with the velocity template engine when rendering
> templates. I tried looking through the release notes but it just looks like
> version numbers were bumped, so I doesn’t seem like this was an intentional
> change in behavior.
>
> The source of the problem is my archetype has a common
> 'META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm’ that contains variables that are
> used in multiple files within the archetype. This worked great with earlier
> versions of the archetype plugin, each template that needed the common
> variable definitions simply needed  a #parse(
> "META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm” ) at the top of the file and then
> all of the usual replacements that were needed are available. Now, with the
> 3.2.0 version of the plugin I get the following error:
>
>
> [ERROR] ResourceManager : unable to find resource
> 'archetype-resources/META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm' in any
> resource loader.
> [ERROR] #parse(): cannot find template
> 'archetype-resources/META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm', called at
> archetype-resources/pom.xml[line 1, column 1]
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time:  1.327 s
> [INFO] Finished at: 2020-08-26T16:28:24-07:00
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal
> org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:3.2.0:integration-test
> (default-integration-test) on project demo-archetype:
> [ERROR] Archetype IT 'basic' failed: Error merging velocity templates:
> Unable to find resource
> 'archetype-resources/META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm'
> [ERROR] -> [Help 1]
> [ERROR]
> [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the
> -e switch.
> [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
> [ERROR]
> [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions,
> please read the following articles:
> [ERROR] [Help 1]
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
>
>
> The issue is that the Velocity engine now expects the common definitions
> file in 'archetype-resources/META-INF' instead of a top-level 'META-INF'
> directory. I tried moving the file to
> 'archetype-resources/META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm', but I found
> that only worked for the “first level”, and it essentially expected that
> file to copied into every level of the directory hierarchy of the archetype
> resources that had templates to render, which makes trying to do this
> totally pointless, I might as well copy the definitions into the top of
> each file like I had done in a very early version of my archetype. I also
> tried using “../“ relative paths (like #parse(
> “../META-INF/common-variable-definitions.vm” )) in files deeper into the
> directory hierarchy to reference back up to a single common velocity
> template, but could not get that to work either.
>
> Is there something I can do to get this working again with version 3.2.0?
> Or is this no something that is actually supported and I was just getting
> lucky before?
>
> To help reproduce the problem I created a simple example project to
> demonstrate this change in behavior between the two versions of the Maven
> Archetype Plugin. The top-level pom.xml in the attach tar has the following
> properties which you can comment/uncomment to switch between a working and
> failing version.
>
>  <properties>
>    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
>    <!-- This version of archetype plugin works -->
>
>  <!--<maven-archetype-plugin.verson>3.1.2</maven-archetype-plugin.verson>-->
>    <!-- This version of archetype plugin does not work -->
>    <maven-archetype-plugin.verson>3.2.0</maven-archetype-plugin.verson>
>  </properties>
>
> If you uncompress the attached tar and call ‘mvn clean verify’ you can see
> how it works with 3.1.2 and fails with 3.2.0.
>
> Thank you for the help,
>
> Matt
>
>
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