Question

I’m using a Mojo that has a Map<String, String> as a setting. According to

http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-configuring-plugins.html#Mapping_Maps

that should be configured like:

<theMap>
<key1>value1</key1>
</theMap>

but my properties are namespace -> package mappings for xsd code generation. So that would be:

<packageNames>
  <http://mydomain/myservice>my.service.package.name</http://mydomain/myservice>
</packageNames>

which isn’t even valid xml. So is there any way to escape the values or another way to map settings to a Mojo’s map?

Answer 1

Use combination of mapping list and complex objects.

In your case configuration would look like:

<packageNames>
  <packageName>
    <uri>http://mydomain/myservice</uri>
    <package>my.service.package.name<package>
  <packageName>
</packageNames>

Once you collect the List, validate that all uris are unique, by possibly assigning it to Map internally. Also, document mojo, that it expects unique uris.