ci-versioning-extension

Automatic project version generation using maven extensions

Uses:

Plugin takes care of generating maven version based on the latest commit hash so that version can become CI friendly.

Please follow the below steps to set up the project

• Add a file extension.xml under .mvn folder which is on the base directory of your maven project with the below content

  com.sab.maven ci-versioning-extension 1.0.0

• Follow projection version convention as below. So that placeholder revision will be updated by plugin in the runtime

  • Single module project:

      <groupId>xx.xxx</groupId>
      <artifactId>xx</artifactId>
      <version>${revision}</version>
    
      <prerequisites>
          <maven>3.3.1</maven>
      </prerequisites>
    
      <properties>
          <revision>SNAPSHOT</revision>
      <properties>
    

  • Multi module structure:

    • Parent POM

      xx.xxx xx ${revision}

      3.3.1 SNAPSHOT

    • Child POM

      xx.xxx xx ${revision} 4.0.0 child.xx.xx

• We are almost done compile the project as usual.

Improvements:

• Version on target pom.xml is not updating i.e placeholder revision can't be updated with the dynamic version which needs to be insvestigated.