[MNG-5235] Profiles not activated according to property values

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Jérôme Verstrynge opened MNG-5235 and commented

I am trying to activate profiles according to properties defined in the pom.xml. Unfortunately, the profiles are never activated, no matter what value is set for the defined property. I double-checked my pom.xml with existing documentation.

The attached example contains two profiles who echo the property value. These are never displayed in the output. However, documentation says a profile should be invoked if the activation section property values are met.

There is also something unclear in the existing documentation. Is it possible to enable multiple profiles with properties in a single run or is only one profile selected at most in a single run?

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Affects: 3.0.3

Attachments:

• pom.xml (3.76 kB)

Issue Links:

• MNG-8081 default profile activation should consider available system and user properties

Remote Links:

• GitHub Pull Request #1446
  
• GitHub Pull Request #1447
  

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Jérôme Verstrynge commented

The pom.xml contains <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault> statements I forgot to remove.

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Joerg Schaible commented

This is by design. Properties are explicitly not mentioned in How can a profile be triggered? How does this vary according to the type of profile being used?. Profiles are the first thing evaluated before anything else to determine the effective POM.

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Jérôme Verstrynge commented

Ok, thanks, that was not clear to me... I'll close the incident.

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Matthew Jason Benson commented

A brief discussion on Slack suggested that supporting the feature of interpolating available (non-profile) properties during profile activation would be a welcome contribution. I have accordingly opened:

• [MNG-8081] Interpolate available properties during default profile selection (Maven 3.9.x) #1447
• [MNG-8081] interpolate available properties during default profile selection (Maven 4.x) #1446

 

12 years after the original report ;)

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Matthew Jason Benson commented

New issue created for user/system properties; does not address (nor recommend) project properties request of this issue. Sorry for any confusion.