[MRELEASE-734] When releaseVersion and developmentVersion are passed in command-line but are empty should be treated as not-defined

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Component/s: prepare
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Dmitry Katsubo
• Created: 01/Feb/12 05:41
• Updated: 15/Sep/12 07:28
• Resolved: 15/Sep/12 07:28

Description

In my case I would like to pass releaseVersion and developmentVersion taken from user input, e.g. from Hudson Release Plugin:

release:prepare release:perform -DreleaseVersion=${RELEASE_VERSION} -DdevelopmentVersion=${DEVELOPMENT_VERSION}

however if user leaves input fields empty it would be nice if maven-release-plugin would treat empty values as non-defined and fallback to default behaviour: inherit the next version from pom. Currently it breaks down with message 'Unable to parse the version string ""'.