Re: Maven: how to get files to show up in Projects view

Hello,

I don't know if I can help. I put myself finally my assembly descriptors in
src/main and added
                            <descriptors>

<descriptor>src/main/assembly/modules.xml</descriptor>
                            </descriptors>

NB is able to understand and extract a lot of infos in POMs.

It understands for example specific "generated-sources" dirs. For example,
I have project where I use an external tool to generate sources with an ant
plugin. To make Maven locate the descriptors and resulting sources which
will also appear in NB:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>generate-abnf</id>
                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <target>
                                <!-- includes aParse into classpath -->
                                <property name="execution.classpath"
refid="maven.plugin.classpath"/>
                                <echo message="Plugin classpath:
${execution.classpath}" />
                                <property name="aparse.generated-sources"
value="${generated-sources}"/>
                                <property name="project.build.directory"
value="${project.build.directory}"/>
                                <property name="project.build.finalName"
value="${project.build.finalName}"/>
                                <property name="abnf.dir"
value="${basedir}/src/main/abnf" />
                                <ant antfile="${basedir}/abnf-build.xml"
inheritRefs="true">
                                    <target name="generate"/>
                                </ant>
                            </target>
*
<sourceRoot>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/aParse</sourceRoot>*
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

This is just an example.

Maybe NB there is solution to force NB to take src/assembly into account,
but I didn't find a solution yet, not even with the
build-helper-maven-plugin.

File an impovement/bug?

Cheers,

JM

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Peter Hansson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> I'm a great believer in Maven and I try to follow the Maven conventions to
> the letter. This includes the so called Standard Locations. (
> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-
> directory-layout.html)
>
> When I do this there are certain files I can only get to by going to the
> Files view.
>
> For example:  Assemblies.    According to the convention they should live
> in src/assembly but that will effectively hide them from the Projects view.
> I would have expected them to show up under "Other Sources" in Projects
> view.  Had I put my assemblies instead under src/main/assembly then it
> would have worked, but alas that's not the convention.
>
> Is this intentional design in the IDE ?   Or just me having misunderstood.
>
>