Conditional configuration in maven pom.xml

Question

I'd like to ONLY exclude certain files using the maven-war-plugin when the property "skipCompress" is set to true. I thought the following specification might work, but it doesn't. BTW, I can't use a profile to achieve this. I want to use skipCompress to turn on and off the compression in both development and deployment profiles.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
    <if>
        <not>
        <equals arg1="${skipCompress}" arg2 = "true"/>
        </not>
        <then>
        <warSourceExcludes>**/external/dojo/**/*.js</warSourceExcludes>
        </then>
    </if>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Thanks,

David

You gave the answer yourself. Use profiles for that kind. – khmarbaise Apr 15 '12 at 08:50 — khmarbaise, Apr 15 '12 at 08:50

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '12 at 09:08

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Without really understanding maven profiles, I solved a similar problem using a pattern like the following. Maybe it is helpful in your case too.

<profiles>
  <profile>
    <id>skipCompress</id>
    <activation>
      <property>
        <name>skipCompress</name>
        <value>true</value>
      </property>
    </activation>
    <build>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <warSourceExcludes>**/external/dojo/**/*.js</warSourceExcludes>
          </configuration>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </build>
  </profile>
</profiles>

answered Jun 16 '12 at 09:08

ralfstx

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`` element of settings.xml does not have a `` element: http://maven.apache.org/ref/2.2.1/maven-settings/settings.html – maksimov Feb 13 '14 at 22:50
It's supported in the `pom.xml`: https://maven.apache.org/ref/3.1.0/maven-model/maven.html – ralfstx Feb 15 '14 at 20:56
thanks @ralfstx, I was/am obsessed with making it work via the global config. – maksimov Feb 16 '14 at 16:31

Conditional configuration in maven pom.xml

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