How to execute multiple ant targets in maven
Yes, yes, this is an XY problem. (I wanted to present it better without losing information)
In my project, when I tried to do ANT tasks in maven, it gives me the same error as in this example. I took this example from here .
I tried to accomplish multiple ANT goals using maven-antrun-plugin
as shown below. But it always only serves the lowest goal (when I don't mention it depends on attibute). When I use it, it gives the following exception:
Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.7:run (default) on project jibx-mvn-demo: An Ant BuildException has occured: Target "compile" does not exist in the project "maven-antrun-". It is used from target "myDAO". -> [Help 1]
pom.xml
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>install</phase>
<configuration>
<target name="clean">
<echo>Clean up my working directory to be nice and sparkly</echo>
</target>
<target name="initDAO">
<echo>Initialize stuff for my DAO build</echo>
<echo>Maybe setup some properties?</echo>
</target>
<target name="makedir" depends="initDAO">
<echo>I need my directories for building.</echo>
<echo>But first, I need to setup stuff"</echo>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="makedir">
<echo>I need to compile my dao source"</echo>
<echo>But first, I need to make the necessary directories</echo>
</target>
<target name="myDAO" depends="compile">
<echo>Here where I package up my DAO</echo>
<echo>But I have to compile stuff before I can package it</echo>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
What is the reason for this? How do I perform multiple ANT tasks in maven?
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The answer doesn't work for me in the current version of the Maven AntRun plugin (1.8) and I miss the build.xml file.
So in the pom.xml:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>download-files</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target>
<ant antfile="build.xml">
<target name="go"/>
</ant>
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
And the build.xml file:
<project name="Selenium" basedir=".">
<target name="check-files">
<available file="src/test/resources/firefox/firefox" property="firefox.exists"/>
</target>
<target name="download-firefox" depends="check-files" unless="firefox.exists">
<!-- download Firefox for selenium -->
<get src="https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/57.0/linux-x86_64/pt-BR/firefox-57.0.tar.bz2"
dest="src/test/resources"
verbose="false"
usetimestamp="true"/>
<bunzip2 src="src/test/resources/firefox-57.0.tar.bz2"
dest="src/test/resources"/>
<untar src="src/test/resources/firefox-57.0.tar"
dest="src/test/resources"/>
<chmod file="src/test/resources/firefox/firefox/" perm="700"/>
</target>
<target name="go" depends="check-files, download-firefox"/>
</project>
The above example does the following tasks:
- Check if firefox exists in
src/test/resources
; - If doesn't exist:
- Download Firefox;
-
bunzip2
Firefox BZIP2 file; -
untar
tar file firefox; - Configure the folder permissions using the command
chmod
.
Works great!
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