Unable to invoke avro-maven plugin

Question

My question is similar to Unable to compile and create .avro file from .avsc using Maven

I have tried all possible things, checked the maven project 100 times, still

Answer 1

Below is a sample POM file that I've successfully used. My guess is that your sourceDirectory & outputDirectory tags weren't properly defined...

    4.0.0
    com.example
    helloworld
    1.0-SNAPSHOT
    jar
    
        
        2.6.0-cdh5.4.0
        1.7.7
        1.1.0
        
        UTF-8
        UTF-8
    
    
        
            org.apache.hadoop
            hadoop-client
            ${hadoop.version}
        
        
            org.apache.avro
            avro
            ${avro.version}
        
        
            org.apache.avro
            avro-tools
            ${avro.version}
        
        
            org.apache.mrunit
            mrunit
            ${mrunit.version}
            hadoop2
        
    
    
        
            
                
                maven-compiler-plugin
                3.0
                
                    1.7
                    1.7
                
            
            
                org.apache.avro
                avro-maven-plugin
                ${avro.version}
                
                    
                        generate-sources
                        
                            schema
                        
                        
                            ${project.basedir}/src/main/avro/
                            ${project.basedir}/src/main/java/
                        
                    
                
            
            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-eclipse-plugin
                2.9
                
                    true