Hi David,
I have used an antrun plugin execution to generate a timestamp
properties file in the "initialize" phase, like this:
<properties>
...
<generated-resources-dir>
target/generated-resources
</generated-resources-dir>
...
</properties>
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-timestamp-properties-file</id>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<goals><goal>run</goal></goals>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<mkdir dir="${generated-resources-dir}"/>
<tstamp>
<format property="timestamp"
pattern="MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"/>
</tstamp>
<delete
file="${generated-resources-dir}/timestamp.properties"
failonerror="false"/>
<echo message="timestamp=${timestamp}"
file="${generated-resources-dir}/timestamp.properties"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
</execution>
...
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
Hope it helps,
Steve
David Williams wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Thanks for your responses. What I really want to do is pass the current
> system date and or time to a properties file. I already know what I need to
> do to filter in maven but I'm trying to figure out the best way to get these
> variables in a build.properties file for example. I'm currently using Maven
> 2.0.6. Some projects are building with java 1.4 and some with java 1.5.
>
> Thanks again for your responses,
>
> David
>
> On 7/31/07, Eric Redmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> That's fine, then stick them in the settings.xml. But you missed my point:
>> "env" access via properties won't be around in the next version of Maven,
>> so
>> they aren't a good suggestion.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On 7/31/07, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Eric Redmond wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would stick to -D options. "env" variables are going away in Maven
>>> soon.
>>>
>>> -D options are simply command line options, they are not an environment.
>>>
>>> Trying to create a pretend environment using -D violates the principle
>>> of least astonishment in a big way, and is a major headache if you have
>>> system specific information that maven requires, such as the location of
>>> eclipse for the pde-maven-plugin.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Graham
>>
>> --
>> Eric Redmond
>> http://blog.propellors.net
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