如何为一组目标创建 Maven 别名？

Question

I'm configuring a Maven project and want to be able to alias, like

mvn server - to execute mvn clean package tomcat:run

The Grunt task runner does it very well, but I haven't found a way to do the same in Maven. Is it possible?

Answer 1

You can define a <defaultGoal>...</defaultGoal> in your pom if you like. So you can define something like this:

<project>
  <build>
    <defaultGoal>clean package tomcat:run</defaultGoal>
    .
  </build>
</project>

will be activated if you simply call mvn ...not really an alias, cause usually you don't need one...

Answer 2

Out of the box I don't know of any solution that doesn't imply using a plugin. A simple solution may be adding aliases to your .bashrc file in your home directory (for Linux) or .bash_profile (on OS X) for your desired instructions.

Eg: Adding a line alias my-alias="mvn clean install" will allow you to execute the command my-alias in the terminal, obtaining the same result as running the mvn clean install instruction itself. Add another line alias my-alias-port="mvn clean install -Dcrx.port=9200" for a second instruction, and so on.

Optionally, you can execute alias to see a list of all your aliases and their respective instructions.

Answer 3

The best solution I have found to this is to use a combination of:

• New Maven 3.3 command line config support: project/.mvn/maven.config
• GNU Make (which then calls maven)
• Bash scripts
• Blaze

Roughly in that order of preference.

GNU Make is especially nice because it offers bash completion.

An example Makefile for your specific example would be:

.PHONEY: server

server:
[tab]mvn clean package tomcat:run

Replace [tab] with a real tab! See make documentation.

Then you can run:

make server

For windows environments you will need to install cygwin or something equivalent. For Mac you don't have to but you should probably install homebrew.

Finally the Maven Bash completion albeit doesn't do aliases but will greatly facilitate typing maven commands (press tab). Many package managers have this as a package (ie homebrew has it as maven-completion).

Answer 4

You can also add the following function to your .bashrc file:

function mvn() {
  if [ "$1" = "i" ]; then
    command mvn install
  else
    command mvn $@
  fi
}

And so you can invoke the mvn install with the mvn i alias.

Everything else that is not mvn i will call the original mvn command instead.

Answer 5

Alias-maven-plugin is what you are looking for.

Following the site:

Whenever you type a command in a shell, for instance

mvn clean install

you could spare time in simply using an alias like this

i

It has also more advantages - you could configure plugin by XML file.