Error running archetype:generate to generate skeleton

[ryancrawcour]

When trying to run the archetype

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=io.confluent.maven -DarchetypeArtifactId=kafka-connect-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=0.10.0.0 -Dpackage=io.confluent.examples.kafka.connect.twitter -DgroupId=io.confluent.examples -DartifactId=kafka-connect-twitter -DpackageName=io.confluent.examples.kafka.connect.twitter -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

(in an empty directory) to generate a skeleton I get the following errors -

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.115 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-04-05T14:46:33+13:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (D:\Dev\sandpit\connect-quickstart). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException

[OneCricketeer]

there is no POM in this directory

In theory, you would only get this error if the archetype:generate goal did not execute, and just mvn was interpreted by the terminal

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In any case, I'm not able to reproduce, but I suggest starting simpler

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=io.confluent.maven -DarchetypeArtifactId=kafka-connect-quickstart

However, that command itself does not follow what is written in the README