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	Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Benjamin Bentmann :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi, The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. Any reason why we couldn't do all this line breaking and indentation stuff right beforehand when generating the source code for the help mojo? Benjamin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Jason van Zyl-2 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On 9-May-08, at 12:10 PM, Benjamin Bentmann wrote: > Hi, > > The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 > contains various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do > some pretty printing of long descriptions at execution time of the > help goal. > > Any reason why we couldn't do all this line breaking and indentation > stuff right beforehand when generating the source code for the help > mojo? > I don't see why not. Go for it. > > Benjamin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@... > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven jason at sonatype dot com ---------------------------------------------------------- A party which is not afraid of letting culture, business, and welfare go to ruin completely can be omnipotent for a while. -- Jakob Burckhardt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Vincent Siveton :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi Benjamin, 2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <benjamin.bentmann@...>: > Hi, > > The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains > various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty > printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. > > Any reason why we couldn't do all this line breaking and indentation stuff > right beforehand when generating the source code for the help mojo? IIRC the main reason to have toLines() in the generated class is to control the ouput, ie getting user configuration like max buffer or indentation and providing the specific output. Cheers, Vincent > > Benjamin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Benjamin Bentmann :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Vincent Siveton wrote: > IIRC the main reason to have toLines() in the generated class is to > control the ouput, ie getting user configuration like max buffer or > indentation and providing the specific output. You mean to support something like this: mvn foo:help -Dindent=4 -Dmax=120 Do I understand correctly? But is this really of practical interest? I could imagine that plugin developers would like to control these settings when generating their help goal but will end-users ever care to control the formatting when invoking the help goal? Just wondering. Benjamin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Vincent Siveton :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hi again, 2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <benjamin.bentmann@...>: > Hi, > > The help goal that gets generated by the Maven Plugin Tools 2.4 contains > various internal utility methods (e.g. toLines()) that do some pretty > printing of long descriptions at execution time of the help goal. BTW I tried help plugin on the javadoc plugin, which is a plugin with a ton of parameters, and the build takes 2 seconds. IMHO it is a reasonable time... Cheers, Vincent > Any reason why we couldn't do all this line breaking and indentation stuff > right beforehand when generating the source code for the help mojo? > > > Benjamin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Vincent Siveton :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message 2008/5/9, Benjamin Bentmann <benjamin.bentmann@...>: > Vincent Siveton wrote: > > > > IIRC the main reason to have toLines() in the generated class is to > > control the ouput, ie getting user configuration like max buffer or > > indentation and providing the specific output. > > > > You mean to support something like this: > > mvn foo:help -Dindent=4 -Dmax=120 > > Do I understand correctly? But is this really of practical interest? Yep exactly User prompts could be customized (ie other 80 char width) so I think it could be a reasonable use case. > I could imagine that plugin developers would like to control these settings > when generating their help goal but will end-users ever care to control > the formatting when invoking the help goal? Just wondering. Actually, end users could control the output with -Ddetail parameter, so why not the formatting ? Cheers, Vincent > > Benjamin > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@... > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	Re: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Benjamin Bentmann :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Vincent Siveton wrote: > Actually, end users could control the output with -Ddetail parameter, > so why not the formatting ? Well, alright. Benjamin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...
	RE: Pretty Printing in Generated Help Goal by Brian E Fox :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message >BTW I tried help plugin on the javadoc plugin, which is a plugin with >a ton of parameters, and the build takes 2 seconds. IMHO it is a >reasonable time... Good point. If you're itching for stuff to fix, take a look at the 2.0.10 issues list ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@... For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@...