[jbosstools-dev] BuildContext in M2E Builders

[Fred Bricon]

m2e's incremental buildcontext is backed by an IResourceDelta which 
references all files modified by a user, during an incremental build. 
All files generated *during* the build, by build participants, mojo, 
whatever, are not part of that initial delta.
I'm not sure it's possible to track all resources modified during the 
build. Basically, all maven plugins would need to implement the 
incremental build API for once, and all of them would need to tell the 
build context what has changed, including for example all the compiled 
classes. This would probably even require changes to the buildcontext 
api.

I suggest you bring the discussion over to m2e-dev list, as I think 
it's an interesting challenge.

Try to ping me on IRC, see if we can find a workaround for your 
specific use case.

Fred

Le jeudi 3 octobre 2013 02:52:03, Rob Cernich a écrit :
> Hey all,
>
> I've been deep in the SwitchYard M2E build participant recently trying to figure out why we're ending up with stale markers in the workspace.  One thing I've found is that items refreshed by the resources mojo don't show up until they are refreshed by the m2e builder, which happens after all the build participants have executed (i.e. refreshes the files passed to BuildContext.refresh()).  This is problematic for me because I'm using scanners created off the context to check for changed files and am missing changes to resource files that have been copied to target/classes.  My plugin is executing in the process-classes phase, so I would expect the updated resources to be available.
>
> I'm not a Maven expert, but it seems to me that if I'm scanning for changed files, I should be able to see _all_ the files that have changed, including those changed as a result of previous executions in the same context.  I would consider the current behavior a bug in the Eclipse BuildContext, but I'm not sure how it's supposed to work to begin with.  If any of you m2e experts could chime in with your thoughts, that would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rob
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