Using maven release plugin autoVersionSubmodules to increment Major version

Question

I\'m using the maven release plugin on hudson with autoVersionSubmodules set to true to automatically increment the development version in the poms.

I\'m wondering i

Answer 1

The maven release plugin prompts you for the values of the release version to tag and also for the next development version. You can define these to avoid prompting; usually you would set them at the command line with something like mvn -DreleaseVersion=1.1.0 -DdevelopmentVersion=1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

However, if you are not getting prompted to select the version, then something is choosing for you. If you are using the M2 Release Plugin for Hudson then I think it has options to select the version for you, but you should probably find a way to configure them explicitly. More details about your particular setup would help.

Answer 2

...if there is a way to make the plugin increment the major version rather than minor version.

Currently when I'm at version 1.1.0-snapshot the next version is set to 1.1.1-snapshot but ideally I would like it to change to 1.2.0-snapshot.

What you are describing here is that maven-release-plugin is incrementing your fix version and you want the minor version incremented. Where version x.y.z means [majorVersion].[minorVersion].[fixVersion].

The way I solved this is in the following manner:

1. Create the groovy script that will pick the version from your pom.xml increment it in the manner you are explaining and set the developmentVersion and releaseVersion as Hudson string parameters.
2. Create a job on Hudson
3. Place the Groovy script in your job's workspace
4. On the job set a "Execute system groovy script" build step - provide the path to the Groovy script
5. On the job set a "Invoke top-level Maven targets" build step and invoke the maven release command with the developmentVersion and releaseVersion properties.

Step 1:

import hudson.model.*  

createReleaseAndDevelopmentVersions ();  

def createReleaseAndDevelopmentVersions () {  
    def POM_LOCATION = build.parent.builds[0].properties.get("envVars")['WORKSPACE'] + "/pom.xml";  
    def SNAPSHOT_PART = "-SNAPSHOT";  
    def projectVersion = findOutCurrentVersion(POM_LOCATION);  
    def versionParts = projectVersion.tokenize('.');  
    def mayorVersionPart = versionParts[0];  
    def minorVersionPart = versionParts[1];  
    def fixVersionPart = versionParts[2];  
    def snapshotPartIndex = fixVersionPart.indexOf(SNAPSHOT_PART);  
    boolean hasSnapshotPart = snapshotPartIndex != -1;  
    if (hasSnapshotPart) {  
        fixVersionPart = fixVersionPart.substring(0, snapshotPartIndex);  
    }  
    int minorVersion = minorVersionPart.toInteger();  
    int fixVersion = fixVersionPart.toInteger();  
    def newFixVersion = 0;  
    def newMinorRelVersion;  
    def newMinorDevVersion;  
    if (hasSnapshotPart) {  
        newMinorRelVersion = minorVersion;  
        newMinorDevVersion = minorVersion + 1;  
    } else {  
        //TODO: either throw an exception here or change the newMinorRelVersion newMinorDevVersion appropriately to suite your use-cases: 
            //throw new IllegalArgumentException("The pom at location " + POM_LOCATION + " contains the version " + projectVersion + " which is not a snapshot version (missing " + SNAPSHOT_PART + "). This is a released version and nothing should happen to it!");  
    }  
    def releaseVersion = mayorVersionPart  + "." + newMinorRelVersion + "." + newFixVersion;  
    def developmentVersion = mayorVersionPart  + "." + newMinorDevVersion + "." + newFixVersion + SNAPSHOT_PART;  
    createJenkinsVariablesAndAddToCurrentJob(releaseVersion, developmentVersion);  
}  

def findOutCurrentVersion (POM_LOCATION) {  
    def thr = Thread.currentThread()  
    def build = thr?.executable  
    def projectVersionParam = "projectVersion"  
    def resolver = build.buildVariableResolver  
    def projectVersionParamValue = resolver.resolve(projectVersionParam)  
    return projectVersionParamValue  
}  
def createJenkinsVariablesAndAddToCurrentJob (releaseVersion, developmentVersion) {  
    def pa = new ParametersAction([  
        new StringParameterValue("releaseVersion", releaseVersion), new StringParameterValue("developmentVersion", developmentVersion)  
    ])  
    Thread.currentThread().executable.addAction(pa)  
}  

Step 5 (the maven command):

clean release:clean release:prepare release:perform -DreleaseVersion=${releaseVersion} -DdevelopmentVersion=${developmentVersion}  

Cheers,
Despot