How to acces POM project name from properties file

Question

I have logback.properties file which contains the following properties.

#logging
logging.server=
logging.port=
logging.path=/opt/${project.name}/logs

Inside my POM file I've got the <name> tag, which specifies the project name. I'd like to inject this name in few properties files like the lockback one above. Doing the above results in creating a folder called project.name_IS_UNDEFINED. Is it possible to access the project name and how?

UPDATE Ralph gave the correct answer, however check my comment, because for spring boot applications you need to used %project.name% instead of ${project.name}!

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4107222/can-i-inject-properties-from-maven-passwords-defined-in-settings-xml-into-my-s — A_Di-Matteo, Sep 21 '16 at 09:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '16 at 09:08

You need to transfer the properties defined in you maven compile-time script into the application at run time.

The most easiest way is to use maven's resource filtering (the name is a bit misleading, it is not a filter that selects files, it is a property replace for text/resource files) in order to let maven replace ${project.name} in you logback.properties file.

true ${basedir}/src/main/resources

If you want enabling resource filtering just for one file (and not for the others to prevent maven from replacing other markers then you can use this snippet:

<resources>
    <!-- enable filtering for logback.properties only -->
    <resource>
        <filtering>false</filtering>
        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*</include>
        </includes>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>WHEREVER_LOCATED/logback.properties</exclude>
        </excludes>
    </resource>
    <resource>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
        <includes>
            <include>WHEREVER_LOCATED/logback.properties</include>
        </includes>
    </resource>
</resources>

Thanks, Ralph. Your answer helped me because I was missing the filtering :). However since I'm working on a spring boot application this did not fixed my problem fully. Instead I had to used %project.name% see here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36501017/maven-resource-filtering-not-working-because-of-spring-boot-dependency. — Anton Belev, Sep 21 '16 at 09:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '16 at 09:08

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Try with the resource filtering: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html

answered Sep 21 '16 at 09:08

gdegani

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