I'm using the FTP Ant task with maven-antrun-plugin
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>ftp</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ftp action="get"
server="${ftp.server.ip}"
userid="${ftp.server.userid}"
password="${ftp.server.password}"
remotedir="${ftp.server.remotedir}"
depends="yes" verbose="yes"
skipFailedTransfers="true"
ignoreNoncriticalErrors="true">
<fileset dir="target/test-classes/testdata">
<include name="**/*.html" />
</fileset>
</ftp>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
...
the problem is that my build fails when the folder ${ftp.server.remotedir} doesn't exist.
I tried to specify
skipFailedTransfers="true"
ignoreNoncriticalErrors="true
but these don't fix the problem and the build keeps failing.
An Ant BuildException has occured: could not change remote directory: 550 /myBadDir: The system cannot find the file specified.
Do you know how to instruct my maven build to don't care about this Ant task error / or how to instruct Ant to don't fail in the case of a missing directory?
Edit:
Peter's solution works.
If you a problem like
[INFO] Error configuring: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin. Reason: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils.close(Ljava/io/InputStream;)V
Just exclude ant from ant-contrib
<dependency>
<groupId>ant-contrib</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-contrib</artifactId>
<version>${ant-contrib.ver}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
Perhaps you need to think more like Ant and less like Maven in this case.
Here is one solution. Use the ant-contrib trycatch task. Here is an example pom.xml. Copy the code block to a file named pom.xml
and run mvn validate
to see it work.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.stackoverflow.q2666794</groupId>
<artifactId>trycatch</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>trycatch</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>trycatch</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"/>
<trycatch>
<try>
<fail>Failing ftp task should go here</fail>
</try>
<catch>
<echo>See the error was caught and ignored</echo>
</catch>
</trycatch>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant-contrib</groupId>
<artifactId>ant-contrib</artifactId>
<version>1.0b3</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>ant</artifactId>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>