Maven profiles equivalent of Gradle

Question

I\'m trying to achieve a simple scenario in my spring boot project build: including / excluding dependencies and packaging war or jar depending on the environment.

Answer 1

Sometimes it's also useful to completely switch between different build files by adding some lines of code to the file settings.gradle. This solution reads the environment variable BUILD_PROFILE and inserts it into the buildFileName:

# File: settings.gradle
println "> Processing settings.gradle"
def buildProfile = System.getenv("BUILD_PROFILE")
if(buildProfile != null) {
    println "> Build profile: $buildProfile"
    rootProject.buildFileName = "build-${buildProfile}.gradle"
}
println "> Build file: $rootProject.buildFileName"

Then you run gradle like this, e.g. to use build-local.gradle:

$ BUILD_PROFILE="local" gradle compileJava
> Processing settings.gradle
> Build profile: local
> Build file: build-local.gradle

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 3s

This approach also works for CI/CD pipelines where you might want to add extra tasks like checking quality gates or other time consuming things you don't want to execute locally.