Can maven-exec-plugin fail the build?

Question

I have a maven execution that runs a javascript compressor as a command line program, however, this tool also does some jslint checks as well.

If these jslint checks fail so should my build.

These errors are output as a parseable string to stdout.

If this maven plugin cannot solve this problem, I'm happy to use any other suggested.

Thanks.

Answer 1

To my knowledge, exec:exec will fail the build if the return code of the executed command is not 0 (or one of the configured successCodes). Maybe you can build something around this.

As an alternative, have a look at these plugins, they both can fail a build on problems:

• the Jslint Maven Plugin
• the YUI Compressor Maven Mojo

Depending on what you need exactly, there is also the Maven Javascript Plugin.

And also have a look at this Maven plugins for javascript question.