How to invoke specific execution

Question

I am trying to replace maven exec with MavenInvokerPlugin because of problems on Jenkins with forwarding the maven settings file.

So in bash it looks straight:

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies@resolve-maven-deps

My translation to MavenInvokerPlugin configuration is

             <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <projectsDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/docker</projectsDirectory>
                    <localRepositoryPath>${project.build.mavenDependencies}</localRepositoryPath>
                    <goal>dependency:copy-dependencies@resolve-maven-deps</goal>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>integration-test</id>
                        <goals>                                 
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <phase>compile</phase>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

It looks like that execution id is completely ignored, because I tried random strings and mvn builds the project with success.

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies@asdfasdfa

So I'd like to know whether this feature is supported at all and what I am doing wrong.

P.S. I know that calling maven out of maven is anti pattern, but here is exactly that rare case when there is no other way.

jenkins way is not applicable, because the same pom is executed locally — Daniil Iaitskov, Dec 04 '17 at 11:49
Hm...Why? The pom is intended for buidling ? What is the real problem here? — khmarbaise, Dec 04 '17 at 11:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '17 at 14:50

After looking at projects using maven invoker I figured out the trick.

goal tag is not used, instead provide invokerPropertiesFile:

<pom>${project.basedir}/xxx/pom.xml</pom>    
<invokerPropertiesFile>${project.basedir}/invoker.properties</invokerPropertiesFile>

content of the file:

invoker.goals=compile -P resolve-maven-deps

How to invoke specific execution

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