how to get maven project version in logback.xml

Question

how can i get the maven project version in logback configuration file since I want to log the project version number. here is the maven file.

<groupId>com.shanil</groupId>
<artifactId>loggingDemo</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>loggingDemo</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot logging</description>

here is the logback configuration file

 <appender name="Console"
    class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
    <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
        <Pattern>
            CEF:1|CompanyTest|%X{nameofapplication:-loggingDemo}|**version number here**| %msg%n 
        </Pattern>
    </layout>
</appender>

Answer 1

You could have a build step which takes a template logback file and populates some placeholders. From logback's perspective, the version would then just be an arbitrary string, just like the CEF:1|CompanyTest| part.

Maven resources plugin should be able to achieve this. It uses "filtering" to replace placeholders.

<build>
    <resources>
        <resource>
            <includes>
                <include>some/dir/logback.template.xml</include>
            </includes>
            <targetPath>some/outputpath/logback.xml</targetPath>
            <filtering>true</filtering>
        </resource>
    </resources>
</build>

Your logback template would look something like this

<Pattern>
    CEF:1|CompanyTest|%X{nameofapplication:-loggingDemo}|${project.artifact.id}| %msg%n 
</Pattern>

You might want to play around with changing the delimiter; not sure whether the default format ${...} will mix well with logback's format {...}. So you could change the delimiter to ** or something.