README.md

ROBOT Maven Plugins

This directory contains additional mvn plugins specific to ROBOT.

Before using these plugins, you must install the JAR:

mvn install

ROBOT Plugins

Update Context

This plugin updates the obo_context.jsonld file with the most current prefixes from the OBO Foundry context file. You must be connected to the internet to run this plugin.

This can be run from either this directory, or the root robot directory:

mvn robot:UpdateContext -N

The -N flag is recommended so that the plugin does not run multiple times for each child module.

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Creating New Plugins

Add new plugins src/main/java/org.obolibrary.robot directory following this filename convention: {plugin-name}Mojo.java.

These new Java classes must extend the AbstractMojo class and have an execute() method. A @Mojo annotation is also required to specify the name of the plugin.

@Mojo(name = "MyNewPlugin")
public class MyNewPluginMojo extends AbstractMojo {
  
  public void execute() {
    // Do stuff
  }
}

For more information on plugin development, see here.

Then, install the new JAR for this module:

mvn install

Now you can run your plugin from the command line anywhere within this repo:

mvn robot:MyNewPlugin -N