Automatically skip pom type modules

[adrienlauer]

First I would like to thank you for this great tool.

I plan to use japicmp maven plugin in a full development stack (https://github.com/seedstack) which contains a lot of modules, some of which are of pom packaging type. I configured japicmp in my parent pom with maven properties to automatically check the current version against the latest release:

<oldVersion>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
        <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
        <version>RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
</oldVersion>
<newVersion>
    <file>
        <path>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar</path>
    </file>
</newVersion>

I found that japicmp doesn't automatically skip pom packaging modules and fails instead because it cannot find the file specified in . I worked around this problem by using a property in the tag that is set to true by default but I must override it to false in each of my 69 jar modules.

It would help me a lot if the japicmp maven plugin could automatically skip every non jar-packaged module (with an info log). This behavior may be enabled with a configuration option.

Regards.

[siom79]

I have pushed a commit to the develop branch that introduces a new option for the maven plugin:

<skipPomModules>true</skipPomModules>

The default value is true, hence you would not have to configure it.

If you like, you can try it out:

git clone https://github.com/siom79/japicmp.git
cd japicmp
git checkout develop
mvn clean install

Let me know what you think.

[adrienlauer]

I'm happy to say that this new feature is working as intended. I tested it in a branch of the main framework with a lot of modules (a mix of pom and jar types) and everything went smooth.

Many thanks.

[siom79]

Released with version 0.5.2.