[MNG-2275] profiles should be merged when inherited

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.4
• Component/s: Inheritance and Interpolation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brian E Fox
• Created: 05/May/06 08:10
• Updated: 10/Mar/16 13:54
• Resolved: 22/Jan/14 20:31

Description

I have some default profiles setup in a super parent pom that all projects inherit from. In some projects I want to change the active profile, but not from the CLI because other projects running in the same multi-project build need to have the normal default. I attempted to work around this by setting the profile to be active on a property in the child pom. See below for parent and child. It appears that when I do this, the child profile replaces the parent. It should be merged so that the properties are pulled from the parent and uses the activation from the child.

parent:
<!-- Setup default profiles. -->
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>dev</id>
<properties>
<profile-default.values>src/main/filters/dev-default.values</profile-default.values>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>auto-test</id>
<properties>
<profile-default.values>src/main/filters/auto-test-default.values</profile-default.values>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>man-test</id>
<properties>
<profile-default.values>src/main/filters/man-test-default.values</profile-default.values>
</properties>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>prod</id>
<properties>
<profile-default.values>src/main/filters/prod-default.values</profile-default.values>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>

child pom..

<!-- This is the property to override for custom properties in this project-->
<properties>
<client-ct-package.values>${user.default.values}</client-ct-package.values>
</properties>
<build>
<filters>
<filter>${profile-default.values}</filter>
<filter>${user.default.values}</filter>
<filter>${client-ct-package.values}</filter>
</filters>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
<!-- temporary to activate the CT production values until all projects can have prod values -->
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>prod</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>deploy-ct</name>
</property>
</activation>

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MNG-4905 Active profiles defined in parent pom are not inherited in children pom