How to execute maven plugin execution directly from command line?

Question

I have a plugin (antrun) with an execution configured which has an id and is not bound to any phase. Can I execute this execution directly from the command line?

<plugin>   <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>   <executions>     <execution>       <id>my-execution</id>       ...     </execution>   </executions> </plugin> 

An run it with something like:

mvn my-execution 

or at least

mvn magicplugin:execute -DexecutionId=my-execution 

Answer 1

This functionality has been implemented as MNG-5768, and is available in Maven 3.3.1.

The change will:

extend direct plugin invocation syntax to allow optional @execution-id parameter, e.g., org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-remote-resources-plugin:1.0:process@executionId.

So, in your case:

mvn antrun:run 

uses the default-cli execution ID, and:

mvn antrun:run@my-execution 

uses the execution configured in your pom.