Maven Archetype should not accept invalid packagenames / create only valid ones

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Using the maven archetype with the following command (which is imho reasonable as Projekt Names can be both uppercase and contain special characters) creates an erroneous package-name:

I'd suspect that the suggested package-name is a valid one but currently this is expected:

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Alexander Muthmann
January 31, 2018, 2:19 PM

thx, got an error with my wrong package-name

Stefan Seifert
January 30, 2018, 2:07 PM

this is a problem/bug of the maven archetype plugin - the validation that is defined in the parameter definition is applied when entering the values in interactive mode, not when giving it via command line.

but we can add a custom validation to our post-generation groovy script to at least fail with a sensible error message after the generation.

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Alexander Muthmann

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Alexander Muthmann

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