Pass variables from properties file into distributionManagement tag in pom.xml

Question

So I have something like:

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-alpha-1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>initialize</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>read-properties</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <files>
                            <file>${user.home}/build.properties</file>
                        </files>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

and I have distributionManagement like:

<distributionManagement>
    <repository>
        <id>local-repo</id>
        <url>file:///${deploy.dir}/${project.artifactId}</url>
    </repository>
</distributionManagement>

I don't have a remote repository, that is why I am doing it using file:///

${deploy.dir} is a property from the build.properties file and it will not take the value for that property. Why?

If you run your maven command with `-Ddeploy.dir=` does it work as expected? — user944849, May 18 '12 at 18:24
@user944849,it works that way, but I wanted to do this from the pom.xml — Andrei Sfat, May 20 '12 at 15:23
Right. I was pretty sure that `` was interpolated when the POM was first loaded and you confirmed it. — user944849, May 21 '12 at 13:45

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '12 at 18:17

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I'd suggest using build profiles to manage multiple distribution targets. For example:

<profiles>
   <profile>
      <id>repo1</id>
      <distributionManagement>
         <repository>
            <id>repo1-release</id>
            <url>http://.......</url>
         </repository>
      </distributionManagement>
   </profile>

   <profile>
      <id>repo2</id>
      <distributionManagement>
         <repository>
            <id>repo2-release</id>
            <url>http://.......</url>
         </repository>
      </distributionManagement>
   </profile>
   ..
</profiles>

When calling the deploy goal you can choose the destination by activating the profile:

mvn -Prepo1 clean deploy

answered May 18 '12 at 18:17

Mark O'Connor

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Mark's answer is probably the way to go, and is what I'm doing to switch between our production and test instances of our remote repository. [Per a discussion I found](http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Lifecycle-phase-in-which-the-url-for-distributionManagement-snapshotRepository-is-calculated-td5673069.html) it sounds like you can load properties for use in later plugin configurations, but core maven model elements like `` only have properties interpreted on initial load of the POM. – user944849 May 18 '12 at 18:32
@user944849, that answered my question, thanks :). You can put an answer with your comment and I'll mark it as accepted answer. – Andrei Sfat May 21 '12 at 06:44

user944849 · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-23T01:30:42.263

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Mark's answer is probably the way to go, and is what I'm doing to switch between our production and test instances of our remote repository. Per a discussion I found it sounds like you can load properties for use in later plugin configurations, but core maven model elements like <distributionManagement> only have properties interpreted on initial load of the POM.

(Moving comment to answer per OP request.)

edited May 23 '12 at 01:30

answered May 21 '12 at 13:43

user944849

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