quarkus subcommands change POM formatting and drops XML comments

[yrodiere]

Describe the bug

When I use quarkus ext add <something> in an application, the command will fully rewrite the POM, changing formatting and, critically, dropping XML comments (<!-- ... -->).

Expected behavior

quarkus subcommands manipulating the POM should not change its formatting, reorder properties or drop any meaningful information like XML comments.

This seems possible as, from what I've seen, quarkus update manages to do it using OpenRewrite.

Actual behavior

quarkus subcommands manipulating the POM change its formatting and drop XML comments.

I remember seeing them reorder Maven properties or dependencies as well, but I didn't check recently, so I may be wrong about that.

How to Reproduce?

Use quarkus ext add hibernate-search-orm-outbox-polling on a Quarkus application whose POM contains comments, e.g., https://github.com/quarkusio/search.quarkus.io where the POM contains this:

  <properties>
    <compiler-plugin.version>3.12.1</compiler-plugin.version>
    <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
    <quarkus.platform.artifact-id>quarkus-bom</quarkus.platform.artifact-id>
    <quarkus.platform.group-id>io.quarkus</quarkus.platform.group-id>
    <quarkus.version>3.7.3</quarkus.version>
    <revision>999-SNAPSHOT</revision>
    <skipITs>true</skipITs>
    <surefire-plugin.version>3.2.5</surefire-plugin.version>
    <test.jvm.args>-Xms2g -Xmx2g</test.jvm.args>
    <version.docker.plugin>0.44.0</version.docker.plugin>
    <version.formatter.plugin>2.23.0</version.formatter.plugin>
    <version.impsort-maven-plugin>1.9.0</version.impsort-maven-plugin>
    <!-- This version needs to match the version in src/main/docker/opensearch-custom.Dockerfile -->
    <version.opensearch>2.11</version.opensearch>
  </properties>

Output of uname -a or ver

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Output of java -version

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Quarkus version or git rev

3.7.4

Build tool (ie. output of mvnw --version or gradlew --version)

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Additional information

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[gsmet]

Closed in favor of #39088 where I centralized all the info so far.