Dependency Version Maven Plugin

A plugin that sets properties to the resolved versions of project dependencies.

License	The Apache Software License, Version 2.0
Categories	Maven Build Tools
GroupId	com.github.stephenc.continuous
ArtifactId	dependency-version-maven-plugin
Last Version	1.1
Release Date	Jan 8, 2021
Type	maven-plugin
Description	Dependency Version Maven Plugin A plugin that sets properties to the resolved versions of project dependencies.
Source Code Management	http://github.com/stephenc/dependency-version-maven-plugin/tree/master/

Download dependency-version-maven-plugin

Filename	Size
dependency-version-maven-plugin-1.1.pom
dependency-version-maven-plugin-1.1.jar	18 KB
dependency-version-maven-plugin-1.1-sources.jar	9 KB
dependency-version-maven-plugin-1.1-javadoc.jar	43 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.github.stephenc.continuous</groupId>
    <artifactId>dependency-version-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.1</version>
</plugin>

Dependencies

compile (6)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven : maven-model	jar	3.0.5
org.apache.maven : maven-core	jar	3.0.5
org.apache.maven : maven-plugin-api	jar	3.0.5
org.codehaus.plexus : plexus-utils	jar	2.0.5
org.codehaus.plexus : plexus-container-default	jar	1.0-alpha-9
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools : maven-plugin-annotations	jar	3.0

test (3)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.junit.jupiter : junit-jupiter-engine	jar
org.junit.platform : junit-platform-runner	jar
org.hamcrest : hamcrest	jar	2.2

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

Dependency Version Maven Plugin

A plugin that sets properties to the resolved versions of project dependencies.

Use-case

Your project depends on something with a transitive dependency. You need to know the version of that transitive dependency, but you do not want to hard-code the version in your project as you are purely relying on it being controlled by the dependency that is pulling it in transitively.

For example, if you depend on jackson-dataformat-yaml that will pull in a transitive dependency on snakeyaml, your code’s sanity checks may want to complain if your code is run with a different version of snakeyaml.

How to use

Add an execution of the plugin to your project and the properties you define will be available for resource filtering as well as other Mojo executions after this plugin has executed, e.g.

...
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.stephenc.continuous</groupId>
        <artifactId>dependency-version-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>...</version> (1)
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>set</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <properties>
                <property> (2)
                  <name>snakeyamlVersion</name> (3)
                  <!-- groupId>org.yaml</groupId--> (4)
                  <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId> (5)
                </property>
              </properties>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
...

1. Always specify the version of this plugin (though better is to use pluginManagement to specify it)

2. You can set multiple properties if you need to

3. You must specify the name of each property you want to set. Because you will most likely be using these properties in resource filtering, recommendation is not to use a name containing a . as there are some unexpected gotcha’s when filtering resources with property names that contain a ..

4. If there are multiple dependencies with the target artifactId and different groupId then you will need to specify the target groupId.

5. You must specify the artifactId of the dependency who’s version you wish to capture.

Versions

Version
1.1 Jan 8, 2021