Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Incomplete
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3.0.5
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Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Description
I recently tried to run tests on only one specific module using this shell script:
#!/bin/sh mvn jacoco:prepare-agent -pl betterrandom &&\ mvn test -pl betterrandom &&\ mvn jacoco:report -pl betterrandom &&\ if [ "$TRAVIS" = "true" ]; then mvn coveralls:report -pl betterrandom fi
It took me a long time to find out that the -pl <module> option needed to come before the goals it was to apply to. Since -pl <module> with no goals after it can't have any effect, it's almost certainly a sign that the command-line parameters are out of order. And since this is such an easy mistake to make when one's new to multi-module Maven projects, the invocation should raise a warning along the lines of "-pl <module> in this position has no effect. To filter a goal to a specific module, it must come before that goal on the command line. Did you mean mvn -pl <module> <goal...>?"