private void describePlugin()

in src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/help/DescribeMojo.java [374:437]
55 lines of code
8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    private void describePlugin(PluginDescriptor pd, StringBuilder buffer)
            throws MojoFailureException, MojoExecutionException {
        append(buffer, pd.getId(), 0);
        buffer.append(LS);

        String name = pd.getName();
        if (name == null) {
            // Can be null because of MPLUGIN-137 (and descriptors generated with maven-plugin-tools-api <= 2.4.3)
            Artifact aetherArtifact = new DefaultArtifact(pd.getGroupId(), pd.getArtifactId(), "jar", pd.getVersion());
            ProjectBuildingRequest pbr = new DefaultProjectBuildingRequest(session.getProjectBuildingRequest());
            pbr.setRemoteRepositories(project.getRemoteArtifactRepositories());
            pbr.setPluginArtifactRepositories(project.getPluginArtifactRepositories());
            pbr.setProject(null);
            pbr.setValidationLevel(ModelBuildingRequest.VALIDATION_LEVEL_MINIMAL);
            try {
                Artifact artifactCopy = resolveArtifact(aetherArtifact).getArtifact();
                name = projectBuilder
                        .build(RepositoryUtils.toArtifact(artifactCopy), pbr)
                        .getProject()
                        .getName();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // oh well, we tried our best.
                getLog().warn("Unable to get the name of the plugin " + pd.getId() + ": " + e.getMessage());
                name = pd.getId();
            }
        }
        append(buffer, "Name", MessageUtils.buffer().strong(name).toString(), 0);
        appendAsParagraph(buffer, "Description", toDescription(pd.getDescription()), 0);
        append(buffer, "Group Id", pd.getGroupId(), 0);
        append(buffer, "Artifact Id", pd.getArtifactId(), 0);
        append(buffer, "Version", pd.getVersion(), 0);
        append(
                buffer,
                "Goal Prefix",
                MessageUtils.buffer().strong(pd.getGoalPrefix()).toString(),
                0);
        buffer.append(LS);

        List<MojoDescriptor> mojos = pd.getMojos();

        if (mojos == null) {
            append(buffer, "This plugin has no goals.", 0);
            return;
        }

        if (!minimal) {
            append(buffer, "This plugin has " + mojos.size() + " goal" + (mojos.size() > 1 ? "s" : "") + ":", 0);
            buffer.append(LS);

            mojos = mojos.stream()
                    .sorted((m1, m2) -> m1.getGoal().compareToIgnoreCase(m2.getGoal()))
                    .collect(Collectors.toList());

            for (MojoDescriptor md : mojos) {
                describeMojoGuts(md, buffer, detail);
                buffer.append(LS);
            }
        }

        if (!detail) {
            buffer.append("For more information, run 'mvn help:describe [...] -Ddetail'");
            buffer.append(LS);
        }
    }