Java Maven MOJO - getting information from project POM

Question

I am working on a maven plugin. I seem to have a hard time figuring out, what would be a good way to get POM information from project in which you execute the MOJO ?

For instance if I execute my mojo in another maven project I would like to get project name or some other parameters.

And one more thing, there is a context MAP in AbstractMojo.java class there is private Map pluginContext, could someone correct me if I am wrong but this is suppose to be used for passing information between mojos ?

Answer 1

You can inject the current maven project into your mojo with a field declared like this:

/**  * @parameter default-value="${project}"  * @required  * @readonly  */ MavenProject project; 

The projects name is then available by simply calling project.getName(). To use this API, you need to add the maven-project artifact as a dependency:

<dependency>     <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>     <artifactId>maven-project</artifactId>     <version>2.0.6</version> </dependency>