I am trying to configure maven to execute the LESS CSS preprocessor in a directory in my web project. Main stream:
- Maven calls maven-antrun-plugin.
- Ant -contrib
<foreach/>goes through the directory and finds all the dormant files and calls the target. - The target runs Rhino, which runs LESS, which converts the file.
For this, I have the following XML:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>compile</phase>
<configuration>
<target name="processLessFile">
</target>
<target name="main">
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" classpathref="maven.plugin.classpath"/>
<property name="css.dir" location="src/main/webapp/css"/>
<foreach param="file" target="processLessFile">
<fileset dir="${css.dir}">
<filename name="**/*.less" />
</fileset>
</foreach>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-contrib</artifactId>
<version>1.0b2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
The problem I am facing is that the “primary” goal starts to execute, but then fails in <foreach>:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.7:run (default) on project model-web-project: An Ant BuildException has occured: The following error occurred while executing this line:
[ERROR] /Users/.../pom.xml:4: Unexpected element "{http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0}project" {antlib:org.apache.tools.ant}project
[ERROR] around Ant part ...<foreach param="file" target="processLessFile">... @ 6:50 in /Users/.../target/antrun/build-main.xml
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
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