[MNG-5099] Issue with properties inherited from parent POM

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.3
• Component/s: Inheritance and Interpolation
• Environment: java 1.6.0_24
• Assignee: Benjamin Bentmann
• Reporter: Dan Checkoway
• Created: 23/May/11 12:23
• Updated: 26/Jul/11 18:07
• Resolved: 26/Jul/11 18:07

Description

This worked absolutely fine in 2.2.1. Fails in 3.0.3.

./deps/pom.xml has:
<properties>
<mysql.connector.version>5.1.16</mysql.connector.version>
</properties>

./library/pom.xml has:
<parent>
<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>base</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<relativePath>../deps/pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>${mysql.connector.version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

./otherlib/pom.xml has:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>mycompany-library</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

cd library
mvn deploy (all good)

cd otherlib
mvn compile (fails)

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project mycompany-otherlib: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.mycompany:mycompany-otherlib:jar:1.0: Failure to find mysql:mysql-connector-java:jar:${mysql.connector.version} in http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]

It's as if it's treating the ${mysql.connector.version} in the runtime dependency literally, instead of resolving that property.

I can work around this by adding this to library/pom.xml:
<properties>
<mysql.connector.version>5.1.16</mysql.connector.version>
</properties>

Please let me know if I'm missing something simple, but it worked fine without the workaround in 2.2.1, and this looks like a bug to me!