How to generate an aggregated scaladoc for a maven

Question

I have a multi-module Maven build and I would like to generate an aggregated Scaladoc in my root module, similar to what the aggregate goal for the maven-javadoc-plugin does. My first attempt was:

<project ...>
    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
                    <configuration>
                        <reportPlugins>
                            <plugin>
                                <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
                            </plugin>
                            <plugin>
                                <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
                                <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                                <reports>
                                    <report>doc</report>
                                </reports>
                                <configuration>
                                    <aggregateDirectOnly>false</aggregateDirectOnly>
                                    <sendJavaToScalac>false</sendJavaToScalac>
                                </configuration>
                            </plugin>
                            <plugin>
                                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
                                <reports>
                                    <report>aggregate</report>
                                </reports>
                            </plugin>
                        </reportPlugins>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
    </build>
</project>

However, the aggregateDirectOnly property does not seem to have any effect. I always get the Scaladoc for the individual jar-type POMs only.

I also tried to set forceAggregate to true, but it had no effect, too.

How to do this?

Answer 1

This doesn't answer the question exactly as asked, but is a solution that may actually be preferred for mixed java/scala projects until ScalaDoc is capable of parsing JavaDoc comments. It produces a single aggregated JavaDoc that includes documentation from all of the project's Scala source files as well.

The solution is simple: configure Maven to use the GenJavaDoc Scala compiler plugin so that ScalaDocs can be converted to JavaDocs. Then, use the normal javadoc:aggregate goal to aggregate the project as normal.

Here is a sample Maven profile to do this. It configures the Scala compiler to generate the JavaDocs corresponding to the Scala sources, configures Maven to treat the genjavadoc directory created by the Scala compiler as a source directory, and then configures the javadoc plugin itself (this last may be optional if you have no special JavaDoc plugin configuration requirements).

<profile>
  <id>javadoc</id>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>doc</id>
            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <args>
            <arg>-P:genjavadoc:out=${project.build.directory}/genjavadoc</arg>
          </args>
          <compilerPlugins>
            <compilerPlugin>
              <groupId>com.typesafe.genjavadoc</groupId>
              <artifactId>genjavadoc-plugin_${scala.binary.full.version}</artifactId>
              <version>0.4</version>
            </compilerPlugin>
          </compilerPlugins>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>add-source</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <sources>
                <source>${project.build.directory}/genjavadoc</source>
              </sources>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.9</version>
        <configuration>
          <minmemory>64m</minmemory>
          <maxmemory>2g</maxmemory>
          <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}</outputDirectory>
          <detectLinks>true</detectLinks>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</profile>