Conditional VDM Generation odata-generator-maven-plugin parameters

Question

I am using following Maven Plugin to generate the VDMs for OData consumption.

<plugin>
            <groupId>com.sap.cloud.sdk.datamodel</groupId>
            <artifactId>odata-generator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.13.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>generate-consumption</id>
                    <phase>process-resources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>generate</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <overwriteFiles>true</overwriteFiles>                    
                        <inputDirectory>/src/main/resources/connectedsystem/edmx</inputDirectory>
                        <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/gen/java</outputDirectory>
                        <deleteOutputDirectory>false</deleteOutputDirectory>
                        <packageName>com.sap.requisitioning.vdm</packageName>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

However I do not want the VDM's to be generated in every maven build. I would like to achieve the following behaviour

• VDM are not generated in mvn clean install by default
• VDM classes are generated when we pass come explicit parameter mvn clean install -D<>

Could you please suggest how can this be achieved ?

Regards atanu

Answer 1

You can use Maven profiles to achieve this. Declare the plugin under a specific profile that is only active given a specific parameter like in this example.

Additionally you should take care that when running clean the generated sources are not deleted. This could happen if you generate them into the output directory (typically target).