Question
Share test resources between maven projects
There is a clear solution for sharing the common test code between maven projects using test-jar
goal of maven-jar-plugin
plugin (see here).
I need to do the similar thing with test resources, in particular, I want test resources of project A be available in the classpath of project B during testing.
For project A one need to declare:
<!-- Package and attach test resources to the list of artifacts: -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<jar destfile="${project.build.directory}/test-resources.jar">
<fileset dir="${project.basedir}/test-resources" />
</jar>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>${project.build.directory}/test-resources.jar</file>
<type>jar</type>
<classifier>test-resources</classifier>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
And in project B it will be normal dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>myproject.groupId</groupId>
<artifactId>myartifact</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<classifier>test-resources</classifier>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
Question: Should it work in all cases? Is it possible to pack resources without maven-antrun-plugin
(using more 'lightweight' plugin)?