Vespa Config Generation

The vespa-configgen plugin is used to generate config-classes from .def files.

Userguide

Put your .def files in src/main/vespa-configdef

Depend on this plugin in your pom.xml

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.yahoo.vespa</groupId>
    <artifactId>vespa-configgen-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Add the following to the 'build' section of your pom.xml

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>com.yahoo.vespa</groupId>
      <artifactId>vespa-configgen-plugin</artifactId>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <id>config-gen</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>config-gen</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

The .def files will now be processed during the generate-sources step, and produce output in the target/generated-sources/vespa-configgen-plugin directory. This directory is automatically added to the source path of your project.

It is possible to configure the location(s) of def-files, and the output of the generated sources. Put the following configuration under the plugin in the build section:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>com.yahoo.vespa</groupId>
      <artifactId>vespa-configgen-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <defFilesDirectories>etc, src/main/def-files</defFilesDirectories>
        <outputDirectory>target/generated-sources/vespa-configgen-plugin</outputDirectory>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

To run only the config-gen goal from the command-line: $ mvn com.yahoo.vespa:vespa-configgen-plugin:config-gen