Agfdhyk

I needed to pass the selected Maven profile to Spring so that the profile info can be used while running the regression tests using Surefire plugin by adding the argLine attribute below. The selected profile is passed as:

<build>

  <plugins>

    <plugin>

      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

      <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>

      <configuration>

        <argLine>-Dspring.profiles.active=@{spring.profiles.active} @{argLine}</argLine>

      </configuration>

    </plugin>

  </plugins>

</build> 

And then I have to run the test as mvn clean test -Pdev (or other env name) all the time. Is there a way I can add a condition that when -P<env name> part is not provided, ignore/skip argLine attribute?

Something like if @{spring.profiles.active}= null then do not include this attribute

You could try a property <argLine>@{argLine}</argLine> in the dev profile (or other env name) and use it in <argLine>:

<argLine>-Dspring.profiles.active=@{spring.profiles.active} ${argLine}</argLine>