Share test resources between maven projects

Question

There is a clear solution for sharing the common test code between maven projects using test-jar goal of maven-jar-plugin plugin (see here).

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Answer 1

Using maven-dependency-plugin we can put the resource needed in the right directory, only modifying the pom on dependent project is needed:

   org.apache.maven.plugins
   maven-dependency-plugin
   
      
         generate-test-resources
         
            unpack
         
         
            
               
                  dependeeGroupId
                  dependeeArtifactId
                  dependeeVersion
                  test-jar
                  ${project.build.directory}/test-classes
                  resourceNeeded.txt
                  true
               
            
         
      
   

type is used to get test resource
outputDirectory is used to put the resource usable in tests

Documentation here: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/unpack-mojo.html