Running Maven in the first ancestor dir that contains a pom.xml file

[dcramer]

Hi there,
Our projects are use Maven and are set up such that the xml files are at various depths in a directory tree and there is a pom.xml file in a containing folder. So you might have:

project-name/pom.xml
project-name/src/docbkx/somefile.xml
project-name/src/docbkx/chapters/somechapter.xml

I'd like to set up an External Tool to kick off Maven such that it works even if you're editing somechapter.xml (i.e. a file not in the same dir as pom.xml). I thought I'd write a simple shell script that walks up the tree until it finds a pom file and then runs maven on it:

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while true; do [ -f pom.xml ] && break; cd ..; done; mvn clean generate-sources

I figured I could store the script in my framework and have the external tool invoke it from there, but when I try, I always get errors like:

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Could not start: Cannot run program "/home/dcramer/.local/share/applications/Oxygen13-2/frameworks/rackbook/test2.sh

" (in directory "/home/dcramer/Documents/rax/rackspace-template/src/docbkx"): java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

Process ended with exit code: -1234567

Is there a way to do what I want? I.e. run mvn against the pom even if the pom is in some directory above the currently edited file (and the number of levels up is an arbitrary number)?

Thanks,
David

[adrian]

Hello,

When you configure the external tool in Oxygen make sure you use "/bin/sh" at the beginning of the "Command line", before the .sh script path.

e.g.
Command line:

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/bin/sh /home/dcramer/.local/share/applications/Oxygen13-2/frameworks/rackbook/test2.sh

Regards,
Adrian

[dcramer]

That does the trick.

Thanks,
David