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How to call maven-antrun-plugin target without attach execution to a maven phase ?


I use maven-antrun-plugin for init config files for my project. But i need to init config files just once, when i first start to init my dev environment, not each time i launch jetty:run.

If I attach phase to process-resouces for example, each time I launch jetty, my config files are reseted.

So i configured antrun like this :

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
        <goals>
            <goal>run</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
            <target name="init_config_files">
                <!-- init files -->
            </target>
        </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

If I launch mvn antrun:run, it just return me this error : "[INFO] No ant target defined - SKIPPED". And it is the same thing, if I specify target : "mvn antrun:run -Dtarget=init_config_files".


Solution

  • Try this:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.7</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>default-cli</id>
                        <configuration>
                            <target>
                                <property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath" />
                                <echo message="compile classpath: ${compile_classpath}" />
                            </target>
                        </configuration>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
    

    and run this:

     mvn antrun:run