[MNG-7793] Add APIs for generated sources

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Zhenlei Huang opened MNG-7793 and commented

Some source code analysis plugins such as Maven Checkstyle Plugin and Apache Maven PMD Plugin might want to exclude generated sources / test sources. Commonly the generators have their own styles and make the generated sources as robust as possible so users might not want to re-check them.

Typically the generated source directory is under ${project.build.directory}/generated-sources but it seems that is not enforced. It can be valuable to have generatedCompileSourceRoots and generatedTestCompileSourceRoots in maven-core and to be consumed by various plugins.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MCHECKSTYLE-412
[2] https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pmd-plugin/usage.html

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Remote Links:

• GitHub Pull Request #1127
  
• Github PR 1127
  

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Michael Osipov commented

gnodet

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Guillaume Nodet commented

I don't see the point of maintaining yet another list of sources.
I think we should focus on the Maven 4 API and it should be an additional attribute on org.apache.maven.api.model.Source instead.

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Guillaume Nodet commented

Zhenlei Huang do you think you could come up with a PR for that ? I'm willing to help and guide you if needed.