Skip Maven Profile conditionally from Java

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This question does an excellent job of explaining how to skip a Maven profile based upon the Properties sent to Maven, conditionally execute maven plugins which would be great, but I'm in a situation where I have two Profiles that execute one after the other, however if one of the Java methods within the first Profile gets into a specific state, I do not want to run the second Profile at all.

I have several very good reasons for wanting to run this entire process from a single Maven command.

Is this possible?

I'm imagining something like this, but don't really know how to reference the property from Java.

From pom.xml:

<profile>
        <id>Profile 2</id>
            <activation>
                <property><name>!maven.test.skip</name></property>
                <property><name>!skipTests</name></property>
            </activation>
            <build>
                ...
            </build>
</profile>

From some Java Class:

public static void main(String... args) {
  if(weShouldRunProfile2){
    skipTests = false; //obviously wrong, but not sure what to put here if this is even possible
  }
}

If have several profiles to build your app there is an issue..What are those profiles for? — khmarbaise, Jun 27 '18 at 18:04
@khmarbaise I appreciate your concern, but I'm not doing what you think I'm doing. — Glen Pierce, Jun 27 '18 at 20:26
I can't think what you are doing cause you don't answer question about what you are trying to do... — khmarbaise, Jun 28 '18 at 05:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

It looks like I could call Maven again from within my Java process by following the instructions here: How to run maven from java?

A simple invocation API : maven-invoker.

Project documentation : http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-invoker/

Usage : http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-invoker/usage.html

InvocationRequest request = new DefaultInvocationRequest();
request.setPomFile( new File( "/path/to/pom.xml" ) );
request.setGoals( Arrays.asList( "clean", "install" ) );

Invoker invoker = new DefaultInvoker();
invoker.execute( request );

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '18 at 20:28

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Ultimately, I decided to just use the file system to solve this. Profile 1 writes a file that contains data on what Profile 2 should do, then Profile 2 reads that file and exits early if that file indicates that it should do so.

answered Jun 27 '18 at 20:28

Glen Pierce

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