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[jira] Commented: (MNG-2046) External property file in command line
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Adrian Petru Dimulescu commented on MNG-2046:
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I completely agree, I spent hours searching for a way to externalize build properties only to find that Maven2 knowingly restricts this. You can't use external properties files nor external XML entities.
I ended up describing my properties in the profiles.xml file which is the "proper" way to do it.
In my case, I have unit tests that need to have access dynamically to some of those properties. If they were a properties file, it would have been extremely simple to read them. Now I have to code parsing profiles.xml ...
I really think that being able to externalize properties is a good idea. Having a .properties file per developer with his own database etc. settings is really simple way of describing configuration.
While I understand that Maven people want to avoid having multiple configuration locations and want to describe everything in the pom, I think that restricting external properties is really going to far. I will sincerely think twice about using Maven in the future, mainly because of this problem.
> External property file in command line
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> Key: MNG-2046
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2046
> Project: Maven 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Command Line
> Affects Versions: 2.0.2
> Reporter: Raphaël Corre
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.1.x
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> It would be great to allow the option "-propertyfile" in the command line, like Ant does to load multi properties. For the moment, it's possible to do "'D", but for a single property.
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