Not that I know of, no.
In your example, why don't you just specify the value ('staging') in the
confgiuration of the surefire plugin?
/Anders
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:52, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm new to Maven and am building a POM with profiles. I want to be able to
> set a system property that contains the value of the current profile(s).
>
> Currently I have multiple profiles that each relate to different web app
> servers (dev, test, staging, etc.) in our dev/test environment. I want the
> profile (via the surefire plugin) to set a system property called "config"
> that can be read during the "test" goal to change which web app server to
> use (via property file).
>
> Currently the value of the "config" system property is equivalent to the
> value of the profile id. Is there a syntax in the POM for referencing the
> id of the profile that is in the parent chain of the property being set?
>
> For example, in the profile below, can I reference the profile id in order
> to retrieve the value "staging"? I've tried ${profile.id}, ${id}, but
> they
> don't work.
>
> <profiles>
> <profile>
> *<id>staging</id>
> * ...
> <build>
> <plugins>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>2.7.1</version>
> <configuration>
> <skip>false</skip>
> <systemPropertyVariables>
> *<config>${profile.id}</config>
> * ...
>
> </profile>
> </profiles>
>
> Thanks!!
>
> --
> Jeff Vincent
> [email protected]
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjeffreyvincent
>
