How to provide different set of properties to the different executions of a plugin?

Question

I am using maven-assembly-plugin to assemble different artifacts as following:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                <descriptors>
                    <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
                </descriptors>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>configuration-staging</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
                <execution>
                    <id>configuration-production</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

In assembly.xml, I enabled template filtering:

<fileSets>
    <fileSet>
        <filtered>true</filtered>

This works great. For example, if I enter ${name} in one of the resources to be assembled, this is replaced by the name of the project. I could also define properties in pom.xml, which will be replaced by the plugin.

Now, I would like to have different properties for each execution of maven-assembly-plugin. For example, I would like to introduce a ${url} which holds the URL to be used on the target environment (staging and production in the example above).

Is this possible? How?

Answer 1

Apparently, it is possible to pass different properties for each execution in the maven-assembly-plugin as following:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                <descriptors>
                    <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
                </descriptors>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>configuration-staging</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <finalName>staging</finalName>
                        <filters>
                            <filter>src/main/assembly/staging.properties</filter>
                        </filters>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
                <execution>
                    <id>configuration-production</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <finalName>production</finalName>
                        <filters>
                            <filter>src/main/assembly/production.properties</filter>
                        </filters>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Although this does not answer the generic question, it answers the question specifically for maven-assembly-plugin.

More can be found on https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/examples/single/filtering-some-distribution-files.html.