[jira] [Commented] (MNG-5900) early interpolation: support ${this.*} as expression

["Florian Schaetz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Florian Schaetz commented on MNG-5900:
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Personally, I stumbled upon the issue when trying to retrieve the "grandparent" version, since {code}${project.parent.parent.version}{code} doesn't work (anymore?).

Let's assume I have a parent project, let's call it "example-parent" with version "0.0.1-SNAPSHOT". There I set a property...

{code}
<properties>
   <example.parent.version>${project.version}</example.parent.version>
</properties>{code}

No surprise there, the effective pom shows me that example-parent has the property example.parent.version=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

Then I make a new project, let's call it "example-child" which has "example-parent" as a parent. Let's give example-child now version 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT and the effective pom of example-child shows us...

{code}
<properties>
   <example.parent.version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</example.parent.version>
</properties>{code}

...because the {code}${project.version}{code} now is resolved by calling the example-child's version. And the information that was stored in the property is effectively overwritten. 

> early interpolation: support ${this.*} as expression
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-5900
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5900
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Inheritance and Interpolation
>            Reporter: Robert Scholte
>             Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x
>
>
> Right now we have $\{project.\*} which always interpolates values based on the final project: "classical" interpolation is "late" interpolation. So it is not possible that parent poms can lock values, ie avoid child poms override. By adding $\{this} for "early" interpolation, it will be possible to have intermediate interpolation.
> If a pomfile depends on a parent, that parent will first resolve all $\{this.\*} values for itself. Once the fully inherited pom is there, all $\{project.\*} will be resolved. 



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