I have a maven module with 2 profile profile-a and profile-b
profile-a can be used independent but profile-b should be run with profile-a
mvn install -P profile-a // valid
mvn install -P profile-a,profile-b // valid
mvn install -P profile-b // INVALID
is there anyway to make sure that user cannot install the module with only profile-b? or active the profile-a automatically if profile-b used alone?
is there anyway to make sure that user cannot install the module with only profile-b? or active the profile-a automatically if profile-b used alone?
No, there is no way to trigger a profile from another one (not supported, see Brett's answer to a related question) nor to strictly forbid the use of a given profile.
The best thing you can do is to use property activation and a common property to activate both profiles:
<project>
...
</dependencies>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>profile-a</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>propertyX</name>
</property>
</activation>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>profile-b</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>propertyX</name>
</property>
</activation>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
And passing the property when invoking mvn would trigger both of them:
$ mvn help:active-profiles -DpropertyX [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Q4099626 1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-help-plugin:2.1.1:active-profiles (default-cli) @ Q4099626 --- [INFO] Active Profiles for Project 'com.stackoverflow:Q4099626:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT': The following profiles are active: - profile-a (source: pom) - profile-b (source: pom)
That's not ideal, but currently, that's the best you can get.