MuleSoft deployment failing using maven - maven

Question

I am trying to deploy a flow I created in Anypoint Studio to CloudHub using maven. I have my pom.xml configured as best as I can tell:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>capgemini</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-test</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>mule</packaging>
<name>Mule maven-test Application</name>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<mule.version>3.9.0</mule.version>
<mule.tools.version>1.2</mule.tools.version>
<cloudhub.domain>mydomain</cloudhub.domain>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mule.tools.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-app-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${mule.tools.version}</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<copyToAppsDirectory>true</copyToAppsDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-resource</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-resource</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/app/</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/api/</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>mappings/</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mule.tools.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<deploymentType>cloudhub</deploymentType>
<muleVersion>3.9.0</muleVersion>
<username>myusername</username>
<password>mypassword</password>
<applicationName>circleci-maven</applicationName>
<redeploy>true</redeploy>
<target>Cloudhub</target>
<domain>${cloudhub.domain}</domain>
<targetType>server</targetType>
<environment>Development</environment>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy</id>
<phase>deploy</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<!-- Mule Dependencies -->
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jfrog.maven.annomojo</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-anno</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Xml configuration -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mulesoft.muleesb</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-core-ee</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Xml configuration -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mulesoft.muleesb.modules</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-module-spring-config-ee</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Mule Transports -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-transport-file</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-transport-http</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mulesoft.muleesb.transports</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-transport-jdbc-ee</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mulesoft.muleesb.transports</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-transport-jms-ee</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-transport-vm</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- Mule Modules -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-module-scripting</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-module-xml</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- for testing -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.tests</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-tests-functional</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-module-http</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-module-spring-config</artifactId>
<version>${mule.version}</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>Central</id>
<name>Central</name>
<url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>mulesoft-releases</id>
<name>MuleSoft Releases Repository</name>
<url>http://repository.mulesoft.org/releases/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>mulesoft-release</id>
<name>mulesoft release repository</name>
<layout>default</layout>
<url>http://repository.mulesoft.org/releases/</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
And I keep getting the following error:
[INFO] No application configured. Using project artifact: C:\workspace\maven-test\target\maven-test-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 11.383 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-07-03T10:33:29-04:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.mule.tools.maven:mule-maven-plugin:2.2.1:deploy (default-cli) on project maven-test: Execution default-cli of goal org.mule.tools.maven:mule-maven-plugin:2.2.1:deploy failed.: NullPointerException -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginExecutionException
I have tried changing things around but can't seem to find anything that works or a detailed explanation of how to get the thing to work. Can someone please tell me what I am missing?

Answer 1

There are a few things wrong here. target, targetType and domain are not applicable for CloudHub deployments via the mule-maven-plugin, and you need to provide some more info (like workerType) Make sure you specify businessGroup as well. Here's an example of a configuration that has yielded a successful deployment for me in the past:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.mule.tools.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<skip>false</skip>
<deploymentType>${deployment.type}</deploymentType>
<muleVersion>${mule.version}</muleVersion>
<username>${username}</username>
<password>${password}</password>
<applicationName>${application.name}</applicationName>
<environment>${arm.environment}</environment>
<businessGroup>${business.group}</businessGroup>
<region>${region}</region>
<workerType>${worker.type}</workerType>
<workers>${workers}</workers>
<redeploy>${redeploy}</redeploy>
<properties>
<env>${mule.env}</env>
<vault.key>${vault.key}</vault.key>
</properties>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy</id>
<phase>deploy</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You can replace the placeholders with your values. Information on what all these fields are can be found here in the documentation.