Getting the version of the current clojure project in the repl

Question

Is it possible to grab the project information within the clojure repl?

For example, if there was a project defined:

(defproject blahproject \"0.1.2\         


        

Answer 1

As described in this discussion.

(ns myproject.example
  (:require [clojure.java.io :as io])
  (:import java.util.Properties))

(defn get-version [dep]
  (let [path (str "META-INF/maven/" (or (namespace dep) (name dep))
                  "/" (name dep) "/pom.properties")
        props (io/resource path)]
    (when props
      (with-open [stream (io/input-stream props)]
        (let [props (doto (Properties.) (.load stream))]
          (.getProperty props "version"))))))

(get-version 'myproject) ; => 0.1.0
(get-version 'org.clojure/clojure) ; => 1.3.0