Is there a way to print the structure of a multi-module maven project?

Question

I'm facing a rather large multi module maven project. I would like to see how the root (parent) project is composed out of subprojects/ child projects in the form of groupId:artifactId (possible with some identation to reflect the hierarchy.

Of course I can write my own plugin to get this printout, but I reckon that there must be something available of the shelf.

Answer 1

Hello late answer but I have added a plugin into maven repository:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.qunix</groupId>
    <artifactId>structure-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>

To run the plugin you will need to add into your pom as below:

<build>
        <plugins>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.qunix</groupId>
                <artifactId>structure-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.0.1</version>
                <inherited>false</inherited>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>compile</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>
                                printModules
                            </goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>

    </build>

then output will look like:

   [INFO] --- structure-maven-plugin:0.0.1:printModules (default) @ test ---
[INFO] 

Project structure (all modules):



                test
                |
                |__ a
                |
                |__ b
                |
                |
                \__ c
                    |
                    |__ d
                    |
                    |__ e
                    |
                    |__ f

If you want to print all files insted of modules use the goal: printAll or if you want just folders use the goal:printFolders. <inherited> means dont execute plugin also in modules and <ignore> mean skip this files using regex pattern.

EDIT: there is never version you can pull from github: https://github.com/buraksarac/MavenStructurePlugin