Unknown lifecycle phase maven

Question

I am new to maven and camel.

I tried executing the examples in camel book. And I am getting this error when I run the following command.

Command:

mvn test -Dtest= SpringTransformMethodTest

Error:

[ERROR] Unknown lifecycle phase "SpringTransformMethodTest". You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the f
ormat <plugin-prefix>:<goal> or <plugin-group-id>:<plugin-artifact-id>[:<plugin-version>]:<goal>. Available lifecycle ph
ases are: validate, initialize, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources, compile, proce
ss-classes, generate-test-sources, process-test-sources, generate-test-resources, process-test-resources, test-compile,
process-test-classes, test, prepare-package, package, pre-integration-test, integration-test, post-integration-test, ver
ify, install, deploy, pre-clean, clean, post-clean, pre-site, site, post-site, site-deploy. -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles.`

Answer 1

you have likely a space between -Dtest= and SpringTransformMethodTest. That's then interpreted as 2 items instead of one.

Answer 2

If the parameter name is not a single 'word' you might also need to enclose it in quotation marks like this:

mvn gatling:test -D"gatling.simulationClass"="my.package.PostmanSimulation"