Common questions related to declarative recipes

[alwinjmjak]

1. Is there any option to make a recipe execute at the end like a post action recipe ? or make it to execute always at the end of the recipe list.
2. If I want to skip a recipe execution if another recipe is present, how to do that using precondition ? Eg. Skip RecipeA if RecipeB is in the recipe list.
3. How to stop execution cycles in open rewrite. Eg. I have two FindAndReplace recipes, the first one doesn't match the find regex so got skipped, the second one matches and replace the content, the first one now gets a match and executes again but I don't want it to execute.

[timtebeek]

Hi @alwinjmjak ; Your questions lack detail as to why you'd want a particular behavior, and as such limit our option to provide you with alternative solutions. Would you mind expanding on the why such that we get a better understanding?

That said, here's short answers to your questions.

1. Add the recipe at the end of your recipeList in a declarative recipe; there are no options for post-actions.
2. For any such conditionals you'll want to create a custom imperative recipe, or have your recipes be idempotent and safe to run in any combination.
3. There is no way to stop short. You can use (multiple) preconditions to first check a number of conditions, before running a list of recipes.