Should register artifacts for mvn install and mvn deploy or update documentation

[tngmech]

When following the documentation https://github.com/chrischristo/capsule-maven-plugin to include the plugin during builds the plugin creates e.g. the capsule-fat.jar into the target folder as expected. However the e.g. capsule-fat.jar artifact will not be installed to the local .m2 maven repo with mvn install nor will it be uploaded to e.g. Nexus during mvn deploy.
Other plugins like maven-assembly seem to register their e.g. jar-with-dependencies.jar artifact automatically. For capsule one can make things work when adding the following to the pom.xml:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
  <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.7</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>attach-artifacts</id>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>attach-artifact</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <artifacts>
          <artifact>
            <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-capsule-fat.jar</file>
            <type>jar</type>
            <classifier>capsule-fat</classifier>
          </artifact>
        </artifacts>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

It would be great to either have the artifacts registered automatically thru the capsule plugin or add this snippet to the documentation to relief other users from searching stackoverflow.

[tngmech]

Moved from puniverse/capsule-maven#6 - may close the duplicate.

[Chris Damian]

Ok good idea, with 0.10.5, you can just add <goal>install</goal> and it will install as desired. See here and here. I replicated what the attach-artifact goal (above) does.

[Gunter Winkler]

I reviewed the changes. Don't you think it's better to use the MavenProjectHelper.attachArtifact(...) method to announce the generated JARs to Maven? This way Maven handles "install" and "deploy" automatically and we could add a classifier like "capsule-fat" or "with-dependencies".

Edit: The version 0.10.5 installs the fat jar when the "install" goal is used, but "deploy" still does not work.

[Chris Damian]

Ah sigh wish I had known about that method. Will update for 0.10.6. For now 0.10.5 supports install only.

[Chris Damian]

Done

[Gunter Winkler]

verified: 0.10.6 installs and deploys the artifact as expected.

      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.chrischristo</groupId>
        <artifactId>capsule-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${capsule.maven.plugin.version}</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>build</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <types>fat</types>
              <appClass>simulator.SimulatorCli</appClass>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

[Chris Damian]

Great! will close :)