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Gili
Gili

Reputation: 89993

How to build a Maven module if a profile is activated and a property is not set?

I've got 3 modules:

and 3 profiles:

I'd like to build Module1 if:

Regardless of whether Module1 is built, Profile2 and Profile3 should build (both) modules Module2 and Module3. Can this be implemented in Maven 3? If so, how?

The problem, as I see it, is that profiles can't activate other profiles and I can't include Module1 as part of Profile2 or Profile3 because there is no way for me to specify that Module1 should be skipped if skipModule1 is not set.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 175

Answers (1)

Adrian Shum
Adrian Shum

Reputation: 40036

Although profiles cannot activate other profiles, there is still a workaround you may take.

When building, instead of activating Profile2 and Profile3 explicitly (by -P Profile2,Profile3), activate them by using a variable, so that it looks like mvn compile -DactivateProfile2=true -DactivateProfile3=true.

Then your requirement on Profile1 become straight forward: Profile1 (which includes Module1) is activated by activateProfile2=true, activateProfile3=true, !skipModule1

Upvotes: 1

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