build-helper-maven-plugin add-source does not working when trying to add linked resources
- by Julian
I am new to maven and hit a problem that looks easy in the first place but I already kept me busy for a whole day about and no way to get it working.
First as part of running eclipse:eclipse plugin I create a linked folder like below:
<linkedResources>
<linkedResource>
<name>properties</name>
<type>2</type>
<location>${PARENT-2-PROJECT_LOC}/some_other_project/properties</location>
</linkedResource>
<linkedResource>
<name>properties/messages.properties</name>
<type>1</type>
<location>${PARENT-2-PROJECT_LOC}/some_other_project/properties/messages.properties</location>
</linkedResource>
And then I am adding that folder as a source folder like below:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>properties</source>
<source>some_real_folder</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
However when I am looking at the generated .classpath in eclipse the “some_real_folder” is there but the “properties” is not. It looks like by default the build-helper-maven-plugin will check if the folder is there and if it is not it won’t add it.
I am using maven 3.0.4 outside eclipse to run the build and I can see in the maven logs something like this:
[INFO] Source directory: <some path>\properties added.
This is my project structure:
project1
\-- properties (this is the real folder)
project2
\-- some_real_folder
\-- properties (this is the link resource pointing to the project1/properties folder)
All I need is to have both "some_real_folder" and the linked resource "properties" added to the .classpath of the project2
