access maven.build.timestamp when writing a version.txt file

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Im trying to write out a version.txt file from my maven build, this is my version.txt file contents:

WarFilename: ${project.build.finalName}-${maven.build.timestamp}.war
BuildVersion: ${project.version} (build number ${build.number})

but when I go to the version.txt from the build output all of the values have been inserted except for ${maven.build.timestamp} which appears exactly like that. Is there anyway of injecting that info into a version.txt file ?

this is from my pom.xml file:

<resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
        <includes>
          <include>**/version.txt</include>
        </includes>
      </resource>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <excludes>
          <exclude>**/version.txt</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </resource>
    </resources>

but I'm not sure how to configure it to be able to write the maven.build.timestamp value into the version.txt file, any help much appreciated, I'm completely new to maven.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 21 '18 at 21:19

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arghtype answered this with his comment:

you could try this solution stackoverflow.com/a/13228882/2417043

edited Nov 21 '18 at 21:19

arghtype

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answered Oct 28 '14 at 13:07

Daniel Robinson

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access maven.build.timestamp when writing a version.txt file

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