Call Maven from within another Maven Project

Question

I have a maven module and a parent of that module. Is there a way to make a call of maven on the parent from within a maven call on the child module?

To be more specific I want to make a call like

mvn -am -pl path/to/module clean compile

and this should also start a plugin like

mvm dependency:tree

The reason for this is that when I would call that plugin on the path/to/module with

 mvn -am -pl path/to/module dependency:tree

then this would only print the dependencies of this module and not of the parent and all of its child modules.

@JFabianMeier I could call the one after the other, but i would love to make it as simple as possible for the people using my plugin. — Shuumi, Sep 24 '20 at 18:47
@SilviuBurcea i'm aware of that, but maybe i'm not that experienced with maven to understand what it would achieve. — Shuumi, Sep 24 '20 at 18:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '20 at 06:13

One way to achieve this that I worked out is to write a script that could be called in a plugin used by the "mvn -am -pl ..." call. This script will then call the "mvn dependency:tree" on the parent pom. I found an SO thread that describes how to call such scripts from within java.

Call Maven from within another Maven Project

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