Using maven to output the version number to a text file

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I want to generate a zip file that will update an application with maven. The zip will be hosted on a server and I am using the assembly plugin to generate the zip. However I would like maven to automatically generate a text file that stores the current version number outside the zip. How is this possible?

EDIT: I successfully did it using the maven Assembly Plugin and two descriptors to create two custom assemblies. One has a directory-single goal and it just creates a folder with the updated version.txt based on filtering. Then another one with a single goal actually packages the zip file. This seems to be very inelegant and I guess it will not properly update the maven repo with the whole updated folder. If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.

maven-assembly-plugin maven-2 java
13 Answers
user_46382870

I prefer the write-properties-file-maven-plugin, because I don't want all maven-project-properties in one file:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.internetitem</groupId>
    <artifactId>write-properties-file-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>one</id>
        <phase>compile</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>write-properties-file</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <filename>test.properties</filename>
          <properties>
            <property>
              <name>one</name>
              <value>1</value>
            </property>
            <property>
              <name>artifactId</name>
              <value>My Artifact ID is ${project.artifactId}</value>
            </property>
          </properties>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>
user_13100630

you can use the maven-antrun-plugin and regex expressions to input the version into the file. PS: version.txt file content is any string ex:version.

 ...
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>1.4</version>
         <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>process-resources</phase>
            <goals>
             <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
               <target>
                 <replaceregexp file="resources/version.txt" match=".*" replace="${project.version}" byline="true" />
              </target>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
   </plugins>
user_62136260

Adding below plugin in pom.xml worked for me. This is a combination of above answers only:-

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
              <target><echo file="version.txt">${project.version}</echo> </target>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
user_17174050

Just use the maven-help-plugin

<build>
  <plugins>
     <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.0</version>
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <id>generate-version-file</id>
                <phase>prepare-package</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>evaluate</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                    <expression>project.version</expression>
                    <output>${project.build.directory}/version.txt</output>
                </configuration>
            </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>

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