Maven enforcer Plugin

External

• https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/maven-enforcer-plugin/
• https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/index.html

Internal

• Maven

Overview

The plugin checks rules and warns or fails the build if conditions are not met.

The list of rules the plugin can enforce is specified here: https://maven.apache.org/enforcer/enforcer-rules/index.html

Examples

Fail if Files Do Not Exist

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>enforce-file-exists</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>enforce</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <rules>
                <requireFilesExist>
                  <files>
                   <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/foo.txt</file>
                   <file>${project.build.outputDirectory}/foo2.txt</file>
                  </files>
                </requireFilesExist>
              </rules>
              <fail>true</fail>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
</project>