Liferay 6 theme using Liferay maven theme archetype.

[Baptiste Grenier, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hi,
I am creating a theme using the liferay maven theme archetype, but I am not sure that I use it exactly as I should.
Using the SDK Plugins it was required to make the changes into a _diffs dir but using maven it seems that I have to copy the modified files directly to src/main/webapp/.
Then I run

mvn clean liferay:theme-merge package liferay:deploy

to generate and deploy the theme.
Is it the way to go? If not how should exactly the maven theme archetype be used?

[jonathan doklovic, modificado hace 13 años.]

I just did this myself.

Essentially you're on the right track... run merge-theme and then copy everything in your _diffs folder to the webapp folder.

I don't know if it's the "right" way, but the maven tools provided fall pretty short as far as doing things "the maven way".

Here's what I do in my pom:

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupid>com.liferay.maven.plugins</groupid>
                <artifactid>liferay-maven-plugin</artifactid>
                <configuration>
                    <liferayversion>${liferay.version}</liferayversion>
                    <autodeploydir>${liferay.auto.deploy.dir}</autodeploydir>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>deploy-plugin</id>
                        <phase>install</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>deploy</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>merge-theme</id>
                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>theme-merge</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <liferayversion>${liferay.version}</liferayversion>
                            <parenttheme>classic</parenttheme>
                            <webappdirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/</webappdirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <artifactid>maven-resources-plugin</artifactid>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy-diffs</id>
                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy-resources</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputdirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/</outputdirectory>
                            <resources>
                                <resource>
                                    <directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/_diffs/</directory>
                                    <filtering>false</filtering>
                                    <includes>
                                        <include>**/*</include>
                                    </includes>
                                </resource>
                            </resources>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

[Baptiste Grenier, modificado hace 13 años.]

Hi,
Thanks for your answer, but what is the interest of having the _diffs folder?

I just put directly the files into src/main/webapp/ and I do not need to copy them explicitly.

[jonathan doklovic, modificado hace 13 años.]

Right, I was just following the way Liferay SDK does it.

In fact though, I've switched to doing the following:

1. choose a theme to start with.
2. copy all of it's content to src/main/webapp
3. edit as needed.

No extra gaols in my pom, and no need to copy anything around.

[Baptiste Grenier, modificado hace 13 años.]

So we are almost doing the same: I just copy the files that I want to modify to src/main/webapp and all the unmodified files are added during the theme merge.

[Juraj Lonc, modificado hace 12 años.]

A little bit old thread but I have to comment (for future generations )

Yes, you are doing it correctly. It is a good idea to copy ONLY the files you want to modify.
It is much easier then to update parent theme (because someone something fixed in parent theme or so).