JarCastingcat-maven-plugin
This is a simple plugin designed to concatenate resources specified by their URI into a single file in an output directory.
Plugin provides a single goal cat, that is bound to process-resouces lifecycle phase by default.
supported URI schemas
Currently following URI schemas supported:
data:- plain data possibly encoded with base64, see wikipedia article;file:- files relative to project directory, schema may be omittedmaven:- link to a maven artifact or file inside a maven artifact (for jars and other zips) formatted asmaven:<groupId>:<artifactId>[<type>[<classifier>]]:<version>[!/<path>]
configuration
The following items may be specified in a plugin configuration:
files- files to construct during execution, may include the following parameters:file- mandatory result file pathname relative tooutputDirectoryparts- list of URIs for resources used to build file contentskipExisting- boolean flag used to determine if file should be processed if it already existsappend- boolean flag used to determine if file should be appended if it already exists
outputDirectory- directory to create files relative, default is build output directory
Examples
<!-- insert into build/plugins section -->
<plugin>
<groupId>io.solit.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>cat-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${cat-plugin-version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>cat</id>
<goals><goal>cat</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</outputDirectory>
<files>
<!-- create an empty file -->
<empty>
<file>empty.txt</file>
</empty>
<!-- append to a an existing file or create new one -->
<append>
<file>text.txt</file>
<parts>src/main/resources/source-file</parts>
<append>true</append>
</append>
<!-- do not modify file, if it exists already -->
<skip-existing>
<file>config</file>
<skipExisting>true</skipExisting>
<!-- assemble file from three parts -->
<parts>
<part>LICENCE</part>
<part>maven:foo:bar:jar:sources:1.0!/some/file</part>
<part>data:,prefix%20text</part>
</parts>
</skip-existing>
</files>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
