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Surendran Duraisamy
Surendran Duraisamy

Reputation: 2531

getting parent directory of ${basedir} from maven

Is there way to get parent directory for ${basedir} in my pom.xml? Currently I have 

<earSourceDirectory>${basedir}/EAR/src/main/resources</earSourceDirectory>

but I need to access parent directory of basedir as my resources lies in different maven project.

How can I get the parent folder of ${basedir}?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 45192

Answers (4)

Ehtesham Siddiquie
Ehtesham Siddiquie

Reputation: 136

I had the requirement of moving zip generated in MainDirectory/Submodule/target/ to MainDirectory/target/. I tried all solutions from everywhere but I was unable to solve. I finally tried Ant plugin in pom.xml of submodule to copy as below:

<plugin> 
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> 
  <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> 
  <version>1.7</version> 
  <executions> 
    <execution> 
      <id>copy to parent target</id> 
      <phase>package</phase> 
      <goals> 
        <goal>run</goal> 
      </goals> 
      <configuration> 
        <target> 
           <copy todir="../target/" overwrite="true" flatten="true"> 
             <fileset dir="${basedir}/target/"/> 
           </copy> 
        </target> 
      </configuration> 
    </execution> 
  </executions> 
</plugin>

Upvotes: 1

Ashish
Ashish

Reputation: 14697

In the children:

<properties>
    <main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</main.basedir>
</properties>

In the grandchildren:

<properties>
    <main.basedir>${project.parent.parent.basedir}</main.basedir>
</properties>

Upvotes: 13

Robert Scholte
Robert Scholte

Reputation: 12335

Please, don't try to go outside the basedir, because it's considered a very bad practice. Even if you succeed now, it will be the start of a workaround over workaround, trying to battle Maven. In the end, Maven will win. If a developer checks out a directory with a pom.xml, it should be able run the project with mvn verify without any references to other directories.

If these are shared resources, make it a separate project and include it as a dependency (search for multi module projects). Or use the maven-remote-resources-plugin to pull these resources into your project.

Upvotes: 7

diegomtassis
diegomtassis

Reputation: 3657

${project.basedir}/../

However, access resources in a different module is something I try to avoid. I'd suggest using the unpack goal of the maven-dependency-plugin.

Upvotes: 14

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