Question

I’m using the maven-helper-plugin to exermine which profiles are available.

My current settings.xml in my own profile folder contains following definitions:

        <profile>
            <id>cqDevAuthorProfile</id>
            <activation>
                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
            </activation>
            <properties>
                ...
            </properties>
            <repositories>
                <repository>
                    <id>localinstance</id>
                    ...
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </repository>
            </repositories>
            <pluginRepositories>
                <pluginRepository>
                    <id>localinstance</id>
                    ...
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </pluginRepository>
            </pluginRepositories>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>cqDevPublishProfile</id>
            <properties>
                            ...
            </properties>
            <repositories>
                <repository>
                    <id>localinstance</id>
                                 ...
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </repository>
            </repositories>
            <pluginRepositories>
                <pluginRepository>
                    <id>localinstance</id>
                                ...
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </pluginRepository>
            </pluginRepositories>
        </profile>

The pom.xml which I use looks as follow:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>validate</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>all-profiles</goal>
                        <goal>active-profiles</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration></configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>           
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

After invokation of all-profiles it produced following output:

[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-help-plugin:2.1.1:all-profiles (default) @ maven-multi-enviroment-deployment-plugin ---
[WARNING] No profiles detected!

while the goal active-profiles produced the output:

[INFO] 
Active Profiles for Project '...:maven-multi-enviroment-deployment-plugin:pom:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT': 

The following profiles are active:

 - cqDevAuthorProfile (source: settings.xml)

My question: What runs wrong or where is my mistake at this point?

Answer 1

Today a went back to this issue and could find out that only profiles will be printed out, if they declared in the same pom.xml where the plugin invokation is.
The documantation for all-profiles says

Displays a list of available profiles under the current project.

While the documentation of the command active-profiles says:

Displays a list of the profiles which are currently active for this build.

The conclusion from that is, the result is correct and I did missunderstand the description..