I've seen this question asked a few places before, but the only responses that I've seen have been either dead links or links to reference material that doesn't actually explain the "how" of it.
I have a unit test that connects to a database using a username and password in a system property as described in the junit docs: http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm#running_7. I have a line of code in my test setup that does: dbusr = System.getProperty("dbusr"); It does the same for the db password and url. We are using several IDE's and each test runner allows me to define this property on the command line: -Ddbusr=foo However using this switch on the "mvn" command line does not set the system property when the test is run. Now I have been able to make this work by specifying the <systemProperties> element in the pom.xml under the surefire plugin's configuration. This will pass the hardcoded values from the pom.xml to the unit test. However, I have not figured out a way to parameterize the build so that users can supply this information themselves. To date I have tried the following: 1) Specifying maven.junit.jvmargs=-D... on the command line (in quotes) as well as in a project.properties file and hardcoded in the pom.xml itself. This property seems to have no affect regardless of what I do with it. 2) Specifying the properties themselves on the maven command line, in a project.properties file. 3) Doing number (2) in conjunction with the maven.junit.sysproperties set to the names of the properties on the command line, in a project.properties file. 4) Setting maven.junit.sysproperties hardcoded in the pom.xml as a system property to the surefire configuration and then setting the properties themselves as in (2). None of the 4 approaches above have worked. Has anyone been able to accomplish this? If so could you describe your approach. Thank you, -- Les Walker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
