[MANTRUN-40] Properties defined in pom <properties> do not propagate to the antrun environment

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Assignee: Paul Gier
• Reporter: Jason Dillon
• Created: 31/Jan/06 16:21
• Updated: 02/Nov/09 13:07
• Resolved: 30/Jun/09 17:25

Description

Properties defined in pom <properties> do not propagate to the antrun environment.

For example:

<properties>
    <my.property>foo</my.property>
</properties>

Does not get propagate to Ant. While properties defined within the pom will resolve, the properties are not available as an Ant property. So from antrun:

<ant antfile="${pom.basedir}/src/ant/build.xml" dir="${pom.basedir}" inheritAll="true" inheritRefs="true" target="foo"/>

And then the Ant build.xml:

<project>
    <target name="foo">
        <echo>${my.property}</echo>
    </target>
<project>

The output will be:

[echo] ${my.property}

Instead of what it should be:

[echo] foo

The workaround is to delegate to a build.xml file with the ant task and redefine each property that is needed:

<ant antfile="${pom.basedir}/src/ant/build.xml" dir="${pom.basedir}" inheritAll="true" inheritRefs="true" target="foo">
    <property name="my.property" value="${my.property}"/>
</ant>

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: MANTRUN-87 Improve propagation of properties
• is duplicated by: MANTRUN-64 Pass properties through
• is related to: MANTRUN-88 Profile properties not handled correctly