getting property values from POM to be used in command line

[Sridhar Iyer]

Hi

I have properties block in my POM file like this.

<properties>

<hudson.version>2.1.2</hudson.version>

<maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.16</maven-surefire-plugin.version>

<selenium.version>2.43.1</selenium.version>

<selenium-driver.version>2.37.0</selenium-driver.version>

<webdriver.ie64.driver>${settings.localRepository}/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-ie-driver-server-x64/${selenium-driver.version}/selenium-ie-driver-server-x64-${selenium-driver.version}.exe</webdriver.ie64.driver>

<webdriver.ie32.driver>${settings.localRepository}/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-ie-driver-server-32/${selenium-driver.version}/selenium-ie-driver-server-32-${selenium-driver.version}.exe</webdriver.ie32.driver>

</properties>

Suppose if I have to use the value of one of the properties in comand line, how do I do that?

My exact scenario is that I have to set the system variable "webdriver.ie.driver" with the value from the property <webdriver.ie32.driver>. How do I do that?

I tried

mvn install -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=${webdriver.ie32.driver} -->> didn't work

mvn install -Dwebdriver.ie.driver= -Xwebdriver.ie32.driver -->> didn't work

The only thing that works is when I provide the complete path such as C:\.m2\org\selenium\....iedriver.exe in my command line. But I don;t want to use the absolute path because I build my project using the CI tool Hudson which runs my tests across mutiple VMs and I don't have control over this path in all the VMs.

[David Bernard]

Hi,

1. wrong mailing list, this for maven AND scala

2. you can't inject expression to evaluate for properties from command line. But you can create 2 maven profiles (one for ie32 and one for ie64) with properties section where you define webdriver.ie.driver with the value. Then from command line use -Pie32 or -Pie64 to use target profile.

/davidB

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