[MPIR-402] Modules Report: provide links to Maven Central

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Florian Brunner opened MPIR-402 and commented

In the table of the modules report also provide the links to Maven Central.

This issue is actually about contributing a patch I made some years ago back to this upstream project.

Here is a sample how it looks like: https://www.drombler.org/drombler-fx/1.0/docs/site/modules.html

I'm using this patch already for several years and it is great for documenting the Maven coordinates of libraries, especially in multi-Module projects, IMHO.

I typically directly point to this report from some prominent places such from a top site inside the documentation (https://www.drombler.org/drombler-fx/1.0/) or in blog posts (https://puces-blog.blogspot.com/2020/01/drombler-fx-version-10-released.html).

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Florian Brunner commented

I finally found some time to merge the Subversion based patch to Git and upgrade it to the latest version: master...puce77:feature/maven-central-module-info

(work still in progress)

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Michael Osipov commented

I am banging my head against the wall finding the improvement you actually want to see here. Help me!

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Florian Brunner commented

If you have a look at "Project Modules" report of e.g.

"Plugin Tools": https://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/modules.htmlor
Maven itself: https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.6.3/modules.html

you see that there are only 2 columns: "Name" and "Description"

With this patch there are 4 additional columns: "GroupId", "ArtifactId", "Version" and "Packaging" which link to Maven Central ( https://search.maven.org ): https://www.drombler.org/drombler-fx/1.0/docs/site/modules.html

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Michael Osipov commented

Your rendering contains two interesting things: artifact id and packaging. Maybe group id too, it could change the deeper you get. Version is redundant because this one does not change in the reactor unless you have an aggregator project. But the link to Maven Central is just wrong because you expect to be everything in Maven Central which is not the case.

Please explain.

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Florian Brunner commented

You can disable the rendering of the additional columns completly, of course:

master...puce77:feature/maven-central-module-info#diff-84d3da574341898085b796e2cd76310c2ca1ae5891375f242324471ba272cd8eR61

Or you can just disable the link creation if you didn't deploy the artifacts to Maven Central:

master...puce77:feature/maven-central-module-info#diff-84d3da574341898085b796e2cd76310c2ca1ae5891375f242324471ba272cd8eR69

Later this feature could be enhanced to support links to other Maven repositories such as JCenter or custom Nexus or Artifactory instances (not part of this issue though).

The version column is there for the sake of completeness and because it might help if it is not the most recent/ top-most release (e.g. if you had to provide a hotfix release of an older major version).

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Michael Osipov commented

I will go through soon...

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Florian Brunner commented

Feel free to already have a look at it, but I haven't created a PR yet, as it needs some small clean-ups and testing.

Of course, any feedback is welcome.