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Re: Any interest in a maven-properties-plugin?

by Zarar Siddiqi :: Rate this Message:

Once you invoke the plugin on dev.properties, any properties in the file will become part of the build. So if the property file contained:

var1=value1
var2=value2

It would be the equivalent of you declaring the following in your pom.xml or settings.xml:

<properties>
<var1>value1</var1>
<var2>value2</var2>
</properties>

So you can either:

A) specify one property file which contains all your properties
OR
B) declare them manually in your pom.xml or settings.xml

Note that you don't have to do both A and B, just one of them.

I like the simplicity of A and the power to have multiple property files is also nice.

Mick Knutson-4 wrote:

I have a question about this plugin....
is this going to allow me to pull a file from the local machine:

<file>c:/etc/config/dev.properties</file>

Then put those parameters into scope of the build. Similiar to settings.xml
<properties>
<project.param>Project-Parameter</project.param>

On 10/16/06, Zarar Siddiqi <zarars@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
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> Here's a site for the plugin:
>
> http://individual.utoronto.ca/zarar/properties-maven-plugin/site/
>
>
>
>
> Zarar Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > I've written a plugin that serves as a good utility in handling
> > properties. Given the many questions on this mailing list about
> handling
> > properties for different environments and I/O'ing them from files, I
> think
> > this would help in alleviating this problem.
> >
> > It has three goals (for now):
> >
> > 1. read-project-properties: Given a set of property files in name=value
> > format, it reads them and stores them as project properties. This would
> > be nice for those of us that store environment specific information in
> > different property files.
> >
> > 2. write-project-properties: Writes project properties to a given file.
> > Helpful when some properties need to be available at runtime (e.g.:
> > Spring's PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer)
> >
> > 3. write-active-profile-properties: Writes the properties of any active
> > profiles to a file.
> >
> > The above three are the use cases that I've encountered. I'm sure there
> > are many more.
> >
> > If there is any interest in such a plugin, do respond to this and I will
> > make a site for it and start the process of submitting a plugin to
> > org.codehaus.mojo.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
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Thanks

DJ MICK
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