How to add a comment to a Maven plugin?

[wimdeblauwe]

I want to write a custom recipe that adds a Maven plugin to the pom.xml, but also adds a comment just above. I looked at https://docs.openrewrite.org/recipes/maven/addcommenttomavendependency but that only seems to work for dependencies, not for plugins.

I tried something like this:

  - org.openrewrite.maven.AddPlugin:
      groupId: org.apache.maven.plugins
      artifactId: maven-resources-plugin
      executions: |
          ...

  - org.openrewrite.maven.AddCommentToMavenDependency:
      xPath: /project/build/plugins/plugin
      groupId: org.apache.maven.plugins
      artifactId: maven-resources-plugin
      commentText: |
          Some comment text here

But that does not add the comment.

Is there a way to do this?

[timtebeek]

Hi Wim; this is now supported too following cb144fd

[wimdeblauwe]

Nice! Thank you for the quick fix. Hopefully there will be a new release soon so I can start using it :)

[timtebeek]

Sure. The next full release is two weeks away, but there is likely to be a patch release before then.