aa-maven-plugin

A maven plugin to show ascii-art, or indeed the contents of any file, with a message of your choosing

...aka...

playing with java interop to write a maven plugin in clojure

show me how!

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.github.mjg123</groupId>
                <artifactId>aa-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.0.2</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>validate</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>beautify</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>

                    <!-- whatever message you like, defaults to something sensible -->
                    <message>this could be the start of a beautiful build</message>

                    <!-- this can also be a url if you like, and is optional -->
                    <show-file>plain.txt</show-file>

                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

that ought to do it, though it's not in maven central or anything so you need this too:

    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>mjg-repo</id>
            <url>https://raw.github.com/mjg123/mjg-repo/master/repo</url>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>

Success

                             \
                              \
                               \\
                                \\
                                 >\/7
                             _.-(6'  \
                            (=___._/` \
                                 )  \ |
                                /   / |
                               /    > /
                              j    < _\
                          _.-' :      ``.
                          \ r=._\        `.
                         <`\\_  \         .`-.
                          \ r-7  `-. ._  ' .  `\
                           \`,      `-.`7  7)   )
                            \/         \|  \'  / `-._
                                       ||    .'
                                        \\  (
                                         >\  >
 this could be the                   ,.-' >.'
 start of a                         <.'_.''
 beautiful build                      <'

Failure

[ERROR] 

      _,-''`''-~`)
   (`~           \
    |     a   a   \
    ;        o     ; ___  _,,,,_     _.-~'.
     \      `^`    /`_.-'~      `~-;`      \
      \_      _  .'                 `,     |
        |`-                           \'__/
       /                      ,_       \  `'-.
      /    .-''~~--.            `'-,   ;_    /
     |              \               \  | `''`
      \__.--'`'-.   /_               |'
                 `'`  `~~~---..,     |
                                \ _.-'`-.
       Sorry dude, I couldn't    \       \
       find the file you wanted   '.     /
                                    `'~'`

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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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