Welcome to the clojure-maven-plugin plugin for Apache Maven 2.

This plugin has been designed to make working with clojure as easy as possible, when working in a mixed language, enterprise project.

Available goals

• clojure:compile
• clojure:test
• clojure:test-with-junit
• clojure:run
• clojure:repl
• clojure:swank
• clojure:nailgun
• clojure:gendoc
• clojure:autodoc

Getting started with Clojure and Maven

To use this plugin and start working with clojure, start with a blank maven project and declare the plugin and add a dependency on clojure:

<packaging>clojure</packaging>
....
<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.theoryinpractise</groupId>
    <artifactId>clojure-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
  </plugin>
</plugins>
....
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
    <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.0</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencie>

By changing your projects type to clojure, the plugin will automatically bind itself to the compile, test-compile, and test maven phases.

Without any further configuration, Maven will compile any clojure namespaces you include in ./src/main/clojure/.clj and ./src/test/clojure/.clj.

Adding additional source directories

To change, or add additional source directories you can add the following configuration:

<configuration>
  <sourceDirectories>
    <sourceDirectory>src/main/clojure</sourceDirectory>
  </sourceDirectories>
  <testSourceDirectories>
    <testSourceDirectory>src/test/clojure</testSourceDirectory>
  </testSourceDirectories>
</configuration>

NOTE: The plugin will prepend the project's ${basedir} before each source/testSource directory specified.

Temporary Compile Paths

If you wish to take advantage of the compilers syntax checking, but wish to prevent any AOT classes from appearing in the maven generated JAR file, you can tell the plugin to compile to a temporary directory:

<configuration>
  <temporaryOutputDirectory>true</temporaryOutputDirectory>
</configuration>

Namespace configuration

If you wish to limit or filter out namespaces during your compile/test, simply add a <namespaces> or <testNamespaces> configuration section:

<configuration>
  <namespaces>
    <namespace>com.foo</namespace>
    <namespace>net.*</namespace>
    <namespace>!testing.*</namespace>
  </namespaces>
</configuration>

The namespace declaration is actually a regex match against discovered namespaces, and can also be prepended with an ! to filter the matching namespace.

If you wish to further limit test/compile usage to only the namespaces you define, you can enable this with the configuration block:

<configuration>
  <compileDeclaredNamespaceOnly>true</compileDeclaredNamespaceOnly>
  <testDeclaredNamespaceOnly>true</testDeclaredNamespaceOnly>
</configuration>

Interactive Coding

The plugin supports several goals intended to make it easier for developers to run interactive clojure shells in the context of maven projects. This means that all dependencies in a project's runtime and test scopes will be automatically added to the classpath and available for experimentation.

By default these goals will use the test classpath, if you wish to only use the compile classpath/dependencies, you can disable this with:

<configuration>
  <runWithTests>false</runWithTests>
</configuration>

or by running maven with:

-Dclojure.runwith.test=false

Goal	Description
clojure:repl	Starts an interactive clojure REPL right on the command line. Property Variable Default Description replScript An initialization script can be specified in the pom using the replScript configuration element.
clojure:swank	Starts a Swank server that accepts connections. Property Variable Default Description replScript The clojure script to run before starting the repl port clojure.swank.port 4005 The swank server port protocolVersion clojure.swank.protocolVersion 2009-09-14 The swank protocol version encoding clojure.swank.encoding iso-8859-1 The swank encoding to use swankHost clojure.swank.host localhost The host to bind the swank server to/td>
clojure:nailgun	Starts a nailgun server. Property Variable Default Description replScript The clojure script to run before starting the repl port clojure.nailgun.port 2113 The nailgun server port
clojure:run	Runs a clojure script. Property Variable Default Description script clojure.script The clojure script to run scripts A list of clojure scripts to run mainClass clojure.mainClass A java class to run args clojure.args Arguments to the clojure script(s)

Testing Clojure Code

Whilst you could easily launch your tests from the clojure:run goal, the plugin provides two goals targeted specifically to testing: clojure:test and clojure:test-with-junit

Without any additional configuration the plugin will generate and execute the following temporary clojure "test launcher" script:

(require 'one.require.for.each.discovered.namespace)
(use 'clojure.test)

(when-not *compile-files*
  (let [results (atom [])]
    (let [report-orig report]
      (binding [report (fn [x] (report-orig x)
                         (swap! results conj (:type x)))]
        (run-tests 'one.require.for.each.discovered.namespace)))
    (shutdown-agents)
    (System/exit (if (empty? (filter {:fail :error} @results)) 0 -1))))

The generated script requires any discovered test namespaces, runs all the tests, and fails the build when any FAIL or ERROR cases are found.

If you require different test behavior, you can provide your own test script with the following configuration:

<configuration>
  <testScript>src/test/clojure/com/jobsheet/test.clj</testScript>
</configuration>

Configuring your clojure session

If you want to provide additional arguments to all spawned java/clojure processes, the plugin provides several configuration properties:

Property	Variable	Default	Description
vmargs	clojure.vmargs		JVM Arguments
clojureOptions			Additional JVM Options such as system property definitions
warnOnReflection		false	Enable reflection warnings
prependClasses			A list of classnames to prepend to the command line before the mainClass

The plugin can also copy source files to the output directory, filtered using the namespace mechanism that is used to control compilation. If you want to copy all compiled source files to the output:

<configuration>
  <copyAllCompiledNamespaces>true</copyAllCompiledNamespaces>
<configuration>

If you want to copy only a subset:

<configuration>
  <copiedNamespaces>
    <namespace>com.foo</namespace>
    <namespace>!com.foo.private.*</namespace>
  </copiedNamespaces>
  <copyDeclaredNamespaceOnly>true</copyDeclaredNamespaceOnly>
<configuration>

If you want to do no compilation at all, but copy all source files:

<configuration>
  <copyDeclaredNamespaceOnly>true</copyDeclaredNamespaceOnly>
  <namespaces>
    <namespace>!.*</namespace>
  </namespaces>
  <compileDeclaredNamespaceOnly>true</compileDeclaredNamespaceOnly>
<configuration>

Note that it will only copy clojure source files, which must a) end in .clj and b) contain a namespace declaration.

Enjoy.

Dependencies

In order to run clojure:repl, clojure:swank or clojure:nailgun, your project needs to have a recent (1.0 or later) version of clojure as a dependency in pom.xml.

JLine

If JLine is detected in the classpath, it will be used to provide the clojure:repl goal with history, tab completion, etc. A simple way of enabling this is to put the following in your pom.xml:

	<dependency>
	   <groupId>jline</groupId>
	   <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
	   <version>0.9.94</version>
	</dependency>

Swank

The clojure:swank goal requires swank-clojure as a projet dependency. Unfortunatly, this library is currently not available in the central maven repository, but is available from clojars by first declaring the repository:

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <id>clojars</id>
    <url>http://clojars.org/repo/</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

and then declaring the dependency itself:

<dependency>
  <groupId>swank-clojure</groupId>
  <artifactId>swank-clojure</artifactId>
  <version>1.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

By default the swank process will run against the local loopback device, if you wish to change the host your swank server runs against, you can configure it via:

<configuration>
  <swankHost>localhost</swankHost>
</configuration>

or by defining the clojure.swank.host system property.

Nailgun

The clojure:nailgun goal requires a recent version of vimclojure as a dependency. Unfortunatly, this library is currently not available in the central maven repository, and has to be downloaded and installed manually:

1. Download vimclojure source code from http://cloud.github.com/downloads/jochu/swank-clojure/swank-clojure-1.0-SNAPSHOT-distribution.zip.

2. Follow the README to compile and install vimclojure.

3. Locate vimclojure.jar and run the following command to install it to your local repository (replace X.X.X with your version of vimclojure):

   mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=de.kotka -DartifactId=vimclojure -Dversion=X.X.X -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/jarfile
   

4. Put the following in your pom.xml (replace X.X.X with your version of vimclojure)

   <dependency>
   <groupId>de.kotka</groupId>
   <artifactId>vimclojure</artifactId>
   <version>X.X.X</version>
   </dependency>
   

Support

Join the discussion mailing list at:

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-maven-plugin