Conditionally include exclude files while creating project using maven archetype

Question

Am trying to create an archetype which will conditionally include file based on the user input.

Like for eg., if a user will use this custom archetype and pass pa

Answer 1

The answer above by GreyBeardedGeek is the correct one. In case someone needs an example of how that Groovy script should look like, I wrote a small blogpost.

Here's the Groovy script from my post:

import java.nio.file.Files
import java.nio.file.Path
import java.nio.file.Paths

// the path where the project got generated
Path projectPath = Paths.get(request.outputDirectory, request.artifactId)

// the properties available to the archetype
Properties properties = request.properties

// connectionType is either ftp or sftp
String connectionType = properties.get("connectionType")

// the Java package of the generated project, e.g. com.acme
String packageName = properties.get("package")

// convert it into a path, e.g. com/acme
String packagePath = packageName.replace(".", "/")

if (connectionType == "sftp") {
  // delete the FTP file
  Files.deleteIfExists projectPath.resolve("src/main/java/" + packagePath + "/polling/FtpFlowBuilder.java")
} else if (connectionType == "ftp") {
  // delete the SFTP file
  Files.deleteIfExists projectPath.resolve("src/main/java/" + packagePath + "/polling/SftpFlowBuilder.java")
}