Bootstrap, LESS and Maven plugin

Question

I'm looking for some information on how to get LESS compiling Bootstrap using the Maven plugin. I need to compile bootstrap with my less because I use bootstrap less in my files. Right now I have the maven plugin compiling less files into css, but it breaks when I try to get it to compile bootstrap less. I think this might be a version issue, but just want to know if anyone's been able to figure this out or has a better approach.

pom.xml

 <plugin>
     <groupId>org.lesscss</groupId>
     <artifactId>lesscss-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>1.3.3</version>
     <configuration>
         <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/webapp/less</sourceDirectory>
         <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/css</outputDirectory>
         <compress>true</compress>
         <includes>
             <include>bootstrap/bootstrap.less</include>
             <include>test.less</include>
         </includes>
         <force>true</force>
     </configuration>
     <executions>
         <execution>
              <goals>
                  <goal>compile</goal>
              </goals>
         </execution>
     </executions>
</plugin>

I running the above in a run configuration that calls "clean lesscss:compile"

error

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:lesscss-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3:compile (default-cli) on project FastTest: Error while compiling LESS source: bootstrap\alerts.less: Syntax Error on line 57: [object Object] (compile.js#1) -> [Help 1]

I'm not sure why it's going after the first item in the list for bootstrap so I renamed bootstrap.less to see if it ran and this is what I got:

Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:lesscss-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3:compile (default-cli) on project FastTest: Error while compiling LESS source: bootstrap\abootstrap.less: Syntax Error on line 686: [object Object] (compile.js#1) -> [Help 1]

Answer 1

You are not compiling your code with correct plugin.

You are defining:

<groupId>org.lesscss</groupId>
<artifactId>lesscss-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3.3</version>

But from output it is obvious that a different plugin was triggered:

org.codehaus.mojo:lesscss-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3