During my experiences with Maven I had a few moments where I wished having some kind of iterations to go over a list of whatever (servers, environments etc.). After some thinking about the problem i have decided to write my own plugin which will solve the problem. And now I have created such
plugin. Currently the plugin can be used by using it from the
staging repository. After some feedback i will release it to Maven central. If you find some problems with the plugin you can create a
ticket on github or write an
email to me. You can use the plugin like the following:
In this case it will iterator over the given list test,prod and dev and call for every item the
maven-assembly-plugin.
<plugin>
<groupId>com.soebes.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>iterator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>executor</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<items>
<item>test</item>
<item>prod</item>
<item>dev</item>
</items>
<pluginExecutors>
<pluginExecutor>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
</plugin>
<goal>single</goal>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>${project.basedir}/<sub>item</sub>.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
</pluginExecutor>
</pluginExecutors>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
If you need you can execute several plugins as well. Just use an extra pluginExecutor for each of your plugins. So in other words: Iteration or foreach in Maven is solved.
