[SUREFIRE-511] Proposal to use java Map for surefire's systemProperties

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Dan Tran
• Reporter: Dan Tran
• Created: 09/Aug/08 12:19
• Updated: 16/Aug/08 00:59
• Resolved: 16/Aug/08 00:59

Description

There is a known problem documented at http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/system-properties.html where maven properties other than java String are not able to pass into surefire

This is mainly because systemProperties is mapped to java Properties class. However if we map it to java Map
the problem solves.

see http://svn.codehaus.org/mojo/trunk/mojo/build-helper-maven-plugin/src/it/surefire for details.

So I would like to propose that we deprecate "systemProperties" and introduce a new one "systemPropertyVariables" to use java Map ( similar to surefire's environmentVariables"

Thoughts?