Bamboo YAML use a plugin like Bamboo Maven POM Value Extractor

Mathias Gebbe

Hi all!

I am very excited to test the new bamboo.yml feature and I am already able to use maven and build our docker containers

but I need a plugin or script to extract pom values for the deployment (in my case $bamboo_maven_version)

any ideas to to achieve that?

thanks in advance!

 

 

Steffen Opel [Utoolity]

In terms of plugins, you might want to check out David Ehringer's excellent Maven POM Value Extractor, which "Extracts values from Maven POMs and keep your Bamboo variables in sync with your Maven POM", thus precisely addresses your requirements!

Given the latest version is from 2016, it cannot have built-in Bamboo Specs (Java) yet, which can be worked around with the AnyTask class, as outlined in Configuring unsupported tasks.

That being said, Bamboo Specs (YAML) does not yet support tasks and is mostly script focused as of today. You need to resort to a script based approach for variable extraction from Maven's XML based POM accordingly. I do not have a solution handy, but depending on your script environment, there should be several options to extract the value (possibly via XPath/XSLT), for example:

PowerShell

• Getting XML values in PowerShell
• How to get Value from xml by PowerShell?
• How to parse a XML file and get the Node value using Powershell
• Search XML files with PowerShell using Select-XML

Bash

• bash extract xml attribute value using xmllint