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Grails - Understanding Profiles

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Description

A profile is a set of directories which contains the "commands", "skeleton" and "templates" defined by the profile. It also contains a directory that contains a profile.yml file. The profile.yml file consists of elements that will describe the profile and control how the build is configured.

The following table shows the child elements ofprofile.yml file.

S.N. Name & Description Example
1 repositories
This represents list of Maven repositories to be included in generated build. 
repositories:
    - "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core"
2 build.repositories
This represents list of Maven repositories to be included in the buildscript section of generated build. 
build:
    repositories:
        - "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core"
3 build.plugins
It represents list of Gradle plugins to configure in the generated build. 
build:
    plugins:
        - eclipse
        - idea
        - org.grails.grails-core
4 build.excludes
It represents list of Gradle plugins to be excluded from being inherited from the parent profile. 
build:
    excludes:
        - org.grails.grails-core
5 dependencies
It represents scope and dependencies to be configured and to be exculded. 
dependencies:
    excludes:
        - "org.grails:hibernate"
    build:
        - "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:$grailsVersion"
    compile:
        - "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging"
        - "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure"
6 features.defaults
It is a list of features to be used by default, if no features are specified. 
features:
    defaults:
        - hibernate
        - asset-pipeline
7 skeleton.excludes
It is a list of files which should not be included from parents profile. 
skeleton:
    excludes:
        - gradlew
        - gradlew.bat
        - gradle/
8 skeleton.parent.target
It represents the folder into which parent profiles skeleton should be copied. 
skeleton:
    parent:
        target: app
9 skeleton.binaryExtensions
It indiactes the file extensions should be copied from the profile as binary. 
skeleton:
    binaryExtensions: [exe, zip]
10 skeleton.executable
This represents file pattern which are marked as executable in application. 
skeleton:
    executable:
      - "**/gradlew*"
      - "**/grailsw*"
11 instructions
It is user manual instructions to user after creating application. 
instructions: Here are some instructions
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