for your use case, you can use maven-resource-plugin to do the placeholding prior to properties maven plugin invocation
-D On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not particularly trying to "inject properties into Maven's system > properties", I'm simply trying to set a property (with resolution of > placeholders) which will be available to all mojos for the rest of the Maven > build. My "use case" is a business requirement from my employer which > requires me to read a properties file from an arbitrary location and use > those properties for unit tests, etc. > > If you know a better way to do this, I'm all ears (eyes?). > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Tran" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:26 PM > > Subject: Re: [mojo-dev] Status of Properties Maven Plugin? > > >> what is the used case to inject properties into Maven's system properties? >> >> -D >> >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am interested in contributing to the project. I have a specific >>> project >>> where I need to add properties to the System.properties collection from a >>> file, but the properties need to have placeholders like ${mydirectory} >>> resolved. This plugin reads properties files, resolves placeholders, >>> and >>> adds system properties, but not all at the same time (unless I'm >>> mistaken.) >>> It's the only thing I've found in the Maven world that emulates the >>> simple >>> function of the Ant "properties file=filename.properties" task. >>> >>> In the interests of solving my own problem, and maybe getting this plugin >>> up >>> to version 1.0 instead of "alpha", I'd like to help. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Fay" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:41 AM >>> >>> Subject: Re: [mojo-dev] Status of Properties Maven Plugin? >>> >>> >>>>> How would I go about finding the project owners? The documents on the >>>>> mojo.codehaus.org site appear to be quite out of date. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> What do you need to get in touch with the "project owners" about? Just >>>> tell us what you need or are looking to do, and someone here may be >>>> able to help -- even if we aren't the formal project owner. >>>> >>>> Wayne >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >>>> >>>> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >>> >>> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >> >> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >> >> >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
