Make code generation part of Maven lifecycle

[xasx]

Just a proposal:

You can make use of several maven plugins to eliminate the need of executing the generate.sh prior to the actual Maven build.

There are several plugins out there:

• maven-jaxb2-plugin:generate - https://github.com/highsource/maven-jaxb2-plugin (corresponds to your existing xjc invocation)
• jaxws:wsimport - https://jax-ws-commons.java.net/jaxws-maven-plugin/wsimport-mojo.html (does even a bit more SOAPy stuff)

After generation, you would tell Maven to respect the sources from the generated directory via the build-helper-maven-plugin - http://www.mojohaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/usage.html

[lookfirst]

Seems like a sane proposal. Not sure if we hacked the generated code or not. =( That might have to be factored into this.

[dankarp]

I got a ways towards un-hacking the generated code a while back. I'll see if I can find it.

[adammichalik]

I had a look at this and the following configuration in pom.xml generates the JAXB classes that match those in the src/main/java/com/github/sardine/model. The differences that I spotted are:

• custom SimplePrivilege interface and its usages
• the Maven plugin generates the fields as protected and not private (apparently hard to get around it without an XJC plugin according to http://stackoverflow.com/q/9377923/466738)
• SearchRequest being generated as Searchrequest
• Multiple classes not present in the XSD, eg. Ace, Acl, All, Authenticated... etc. - 30+ of them. Can someone explain where they came from and if the XSD could be updated to incorporate these types?

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jvnet.jaxb2.maven2</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jaxb2-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.13.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>generate</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <schemas>
                                <schema>
                                    <fileset>
                                        <directory>${basedir}</directory>
                                        <includes>
                                            <include>webdav.xsd</include>
                                        </includes>
                                    </fileset>
                                </schema>
                            </schemas>
                            <generatePackage>com.github.sardine.model</generatePackage>
                            <strict>false</strict>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>