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John
John

Reputation: 422

Accessing a property from a management pom

In our project, we use a dependency-management pom which is imported into another maven project's pom. The dependency management pom has some properties. Is there a way to access the properties from the dependency management pom?

Also, I looked at other options. Having the dependency-management pom as a parent pom, but the maven project's pom already has a parent pom declared so that is not an option.

Using properties-maven-plugin, but I am not sure how to access the property from another pom using this plugin.

Below is the structure am working with.

** dependency-management pom:

<project>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <groupId>group1</groupId>
    <artifactId>artifact1</artifactId>
    <name>management-pom</name>
    <version>0.1</version>

    <properties>
        <test.version>0.2</test.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>group2</groupId>
                <artifactId>artifact2</artifactId>
                <version>${test.version}</version>
            </dependency>
        <dependencies>
     <dependencyManagement>
</project>

** pom where dependency-management pom is imported:

<project>
    <packaging>war</packaging>
    <groupId>group3</groupId>
    <artifactId>artifact3</artifactId>
    <name>war-pom</name>
    <version>0.1</version>
    <properties>
        <!--how to access the dependency-management pom's properties here?-->
        <maven.test.version>${test.version}</maven.test.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>group2</groupId>
            <artifactId>artifact2</artifactId>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>group1</groupId>
                <artifactId>artifact1</artifactId>
                <version>0.1</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        <dependencies>
     <dependencyManagement>
</project>

The closest question I found was Access maven property using dependency management which was asked 4 years ago and it did not have an answer that I was looking for.

Any help is much appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 87

Answers (1)

John
John

Reputation: 422

I did find this plugin https://gitlab.com/josh-cain/dependencyversion-maven-plugin.

This did the job of getting the dependency version from the pom that was getting imported.

So using this plugin, now I am able to directly access the version of the dependency which was getting exported as a property using this plugin.

Used the below snippet in the code.

${group2:artifact2.jar.version}

Upvotes: 0

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