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Subject: Re: Etch Maven Plugin
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Rick Bolkey (rbolkey) wrote:
> Hi all,
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> So I've been developing an etch plugin for maven.  There are a few use
> cases I had in mind in developing the plugin, so I would like to present
> those as well as go over the general flow of the plugin.  I'd appreciate
> some feedback as far as alternative use-cases that could fit within the
> scope of the plugin.
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> I had two use cases directly in mind. 
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> 1)      A user has an etch file in their project, and wants to generate
> a binding.
>   
a client or a service implementation?
> 2)      A user has a dependency containing an etch file, and wants to
> generate a binding.
>   
a reference client or service?

so what is the different action between these two?
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> Use case #2 service the case if you want to publish an etch file in an
> artifact, and allow different projects to generate binding for it.
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> Right now the plugin consists of one goal that does the following:
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> 1)      Scans through all the compile time dependencies of a project.
> If a dependency contains an etch file, that file along with any "txt"
> files (for inclusions) are extracted to a temporary sandbox under the
> target directory.
>
> 2)      Plugin then looks for the  etch file specified in the plugin in
> the following locations. 1) as an absolute reference, 2) in
> "src/main/etch", and 3) in the sandbox where we extracted all the found
> etch files.
>
> 3)      Generate the binding based on the resolved etch file.
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> I think I would like to separate steps 1 and 2 above into separate
> goals.  Also, the plugin currently suppresses generation when it detects
> the binding has already been generated (this can be overridden using a
> "force" parameter.
>   
not sure what you mean here. when / why would you want to suppress?
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> Please let me know if you want any more details/description.  I need to
> run to a meeting.
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> Thanks
>
> Rick
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> Richard R. Bolkey
>
> Cisco Systems, Inc
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> d:  +1-512-336-3322
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> e:  rbolkey@cisco.com <mailto:rbolkey@cisco.com> 
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