Marius Dumitru Florea created MRELEASE-782: ----------------------------------------------
Summary: Properties defined in a child pom hide all the properties defined in the parent pom while performing release:prepare Key: MRELEASE-782 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-782 Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin Issue Type: Bug Components: prepare Affects Versions: 2.3.2 Environment: Any Reporter: Marius Dumitru Florea Suppose you have this two poms: {code:title=Parent POM} ... <properties> <my.version>1.6</my.version> </properties> ... {code} {code:title=Child POM} ... <!-- No properties defined here! --> ... <plugin> ... <dependencies> <dependency> ... <version>${my.version}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> ... {code} Running release:prepare on this works just fine. Now, if we add a {{properties}} section with any property to the child pom we get: {noformat} [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare (default-cli) on project XYZ: The version could not be updated: ${my.version} -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:prepare (default-cli) on project XYZ: The version could not be updated: ${my.version} at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:213) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException: The version could not be updated: ${commons.version} at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.prepareRelease(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:299) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.execute(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:247) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) ... 19 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.shared.release.ReleaseFailureException: The version could not be updated: ${my.version} at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.rewriteArtifactVersions(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:578) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transformDocument(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:298) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transformProject(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:220) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transform(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:126) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.simulate(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:713) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:228) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:169) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:146) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:107) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.prepareRelease(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:291) ... 22 more {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira