[WHIRR-471] Display jclouds version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0
• Assignee: Andrei Savu
• Reporter: Andrei Savu
• Created: 08/Jan/12 23:42
• Updated: 09/Oct/12 10:00
• Resolved: 15/Jan/12 22:09

Description

It would be useful to also display the jclouds version on "bin/whirr version".

Here is the relevant message from Andrew Phillips on jclouds-dev@:

Issue 802 [1] added a JcloudsVersion class to jclouds/core which can be used to get version information about jclouds at runtime. It's designed to be used as follows:

A. From outside jclouds:
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Obtain a JcloudsVersion instance using JcloudsVersion.get(). Version information is read from META-INF/jclouds-version.properties (META-INF/maven/.../pom.properties would have been nice but isn't available from an IDE) which is included in the jclouds core JAR.

If you need to simulate a different JcloudsVersion for testing purposes, you can place an overriding META-INF/jclouds-version.properties file in the classpath (e.g. src/test/resources) with the desired version.

B. From inside jclouds:
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Obtain a JcloudsVersion instance using Guice, binding it to JcloudsVersion.get(). When testing code that uses a JcloudsVersion, override this binding with an appropriate instance created with new JcloudsVersion("my-test-version").

Thanks!

Issue Links

• requires: WHIRR-456 Upgrade to jclouds 1.3.0