Custom type converter for Mojo configuration?

Question

I need to use custom type, e.g., LunarDate, in my Mojo object:

class MyMojo extends AbstractMojo {

    /** @parameter */
    LunarDate lunarDate;

         


        

Answer 1

For newer Maven (tested with Maven 3.3.1) you can now subclass BasicComponentConfigurator to access the DefaultConverterLookup as a member variable:

@Component(role = ComponentConfigurator.class, hint = "basic")
public class ExtendedComponentRegistrator 
        extends BasicComponentConfigurator  
        implements Initializable {

    @Override
    public void initialize() throws InitializationException {
        converterLookup.registerConverter(new MyCustomConverter());
    }
}

Then in the pom.xml enable the generation of plexus meta data:

  org.codehaus.plexus
  plexus-component-metadata
  
    
      
        generate-metadata