[FIXED] Maven: How to exclude a plugin with a custom flag

Issue

I have a plugin in my Spring Boot projects pom.xml which I would like the option of sometimes disabling when running mvn clean install.
Is there a configuration I could add to my pom.xml which would create a custom flag e.g. exc, which when invoked like so mvn clean install -D exc would build the jar, without that plugin. For clarity, here is the plugin I would like to disable via a maven flag:

 <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springdoc</groupId>
                <artifactId>springdoc-openapi-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${springdoc-openapi-maven.version}</version>
                <configuration>
                    <apiDocsUrl>http://localhost:XXXX/v3/api-docs</apiDocsUrl>
                    <outputDir>${project.basedir}/openapi</outputDir>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>generate</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

Solution

You can add <springdoc.skip>true</springdoc.skip> to your <properties> section.

Then you can activate the plugin by mvn clean install -Dspringdoc.skip=false

Answered By - J Fabian Meier