Maven 2.x Build Helper Plugin

new goal "current-time"

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Won't Fix
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
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Description

The goal should provide "now" as formatted string in a property. The goal should have 4 parameters:

  1. timeZone: A time zone string (like UTC or Europe/Berlin) used to transform the local time with TZ.getDefault() as default
  2. format: A string passed to a SimpleDateFormat using something like "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ" as default
  3. locale: The locale used for the formatted string using Locale.ENGLISH as default
  4. currentTimeProperty: The name of the property in which to store the result

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Robert Scholte added a comment -

Most people don't know this, but since maven-2.1.0 there's a special/magic variable which does almost the same thing, namely maven.build.timestamp :
More details can be found here:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html#Available_Variables

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Robert Scholte added a comment - Most people don't know this, but since maven-2.1.0 there's a special/magic variable which does almost the same thing, namely maven.build.timestamp : More details can be found here: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html#Available_Variables
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Dan Tran added a comment -

I am all for adding this goal but it must be compatible with maven 2.x. Could we change it to build-helper:timestamp?

buildnumber-maven-plugin also provides this capability, beside from being confusing , it also requires a valid SCM which we dont have sometimes, specially when we need to build from source bundle deployed at maven repo.

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Dan Tran added a comment - I am all for adding this goal but it must be compatible with maven 2.x. Could we change it to build-helper:timestamp? buildnumber-maven-plugin also provides this capability, beside from being confusing , it also requires a valid SCM which we dont have sometimes, specially when we need to build from source bundle deployed at maven repo.
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Jörg Schaible added a comment -

@Robert: Thanks, this will solve my primary problem.

@Dan:

  1. buildnumber plugin is really very unfortunate, because it will execute in any case a shell script calling subversion and would increase out build time with ~300 artifacts tremendously
  2. I am not tied to a name of the goal. However, you may use the goal multiple times with different configuration to get a variable with current year, a timestamp, a localized long date, UTC time, etc. The goal name should IMHO reflect this possibility.
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Jörg Schaible added a comment - @Robert: Thanks, this will solve my primary problem. @Dan: buildnumber plugin is really very unfortunate, because it will execute in any case a shell script calling subversion and would increase out build time with ~300 artifacts tremendously I am not tied to a name of the goal. However, you may use the goal multiple times with different configuration to get a variable with current year, a timestamp, a localized long date, UTC time, etc. The goal name should IMHO reflect this possibility.
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Dan Tran added a comment -

build-helper:current-time that is!!

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Dan Tran added a comment - build-helper:current-time that is!!
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François Wauquier added a comment -

Hi

didn't know about maven.build.timestamp good news!

You should be inspired by http://code.google.com/p/maven-timestamp-plugin/
which already offer this functionality, with possibility to use a pattern, you called 'format'.

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François Wauquier added a comment - Hi didn't know about maven.build.timestamp good news! You should be inspired by http://code.google.com/p/maven-timestamp-plugin/ which already offer this functionality, with possibility to use a pattern, you called 'format'.
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Paul Gier added a comment -

The buildnumber-maven-plugin currently mixes timestamp with getting the scm revision number, but as of MOJO-1422, you will be able to get a timestamp by itself.

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Paul Gier added a comment - The buildnumber-maven-plugin currently mixes timestamp with getting the scm revision number, but as of MOJO-1422 , you will be able to get a timestamp by itself.
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Paul Gier added a comment -

Closing this issue since the buildnumber Maven plugin now provides a timestamp goal

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Paul Gier added a comment - Closing this issue since the buildnumber Maven plugin now provides a timestamp goal

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    Jörg Schaible
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