project.build.finalName is not working with deploy-file goal - maven

Question

can we use project.build.finalName in the command line options of the mvn deploy:deploy-file goal.
here is my command:
mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=abc -Dproject.build.finalName=test -DartifactId=test -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile="file_path" -Durl=url -DrepositoryId=id`
the details are :
first, there is no POM file available.
i am just executing this command to upload the artifact in nexus.
now the issue is , the artifact being uploaded has the name as : ${artifactId}-${version}
and i dont want version in the finalname. i have alrady gone through the couple of posts and found that we can use project.build.finalName
but in this case , it is still uploading with version number. how can i fix that ?

Answer 1

You need to drop the -Dproject.build.finalName part and add -DgeneratePom=true instead, as you're already specifying the full path to the artifact via the -Dfile.
You cannot not have the version part when deploying to a Maven remote repository (which is what you're trying to do). When deploying to a Maven repository, your artifact's GAV (groupId, artifactId, version, type and classifier) coordinates will get translated into:
${groupId}/${artifactId}/${version}/${artifactId}-${version}.jar
For example, for these GAV-s:
groupId : com.foo
artifactId : bar
version : 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT
type : jar
classifier : [null, javadoc, sources]
You will get a path like:
com/foo/bar/1.2.3-SNAPSHOT/bar-1.2.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
com/foo/bar/1.2.3-SNAPSHOT/bar-1.2.3-SNAPSHOT-javadoc.jar
com/foo/bar/1.2.3-SNAPSHOT/bar-1.2.3-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar
The -Dproject.build.finalName is for cases, where you'd like the artifact to have a different name so that, (for example), your build process can use that for simplicity, or convenience.
If you're deploying using deploy-file and have no pom.xml file, your command-line should look something like this:
mvn deploy:deploy-file \
-DgroupId=com.foo \
-DartifactId=bar \
-Dversion=1.2.3-SNAPSHOT \
-Dpackaging=jar \
-Dfile="path\to\foo-1.2.3-SNAPSHOT.jar" \
-Durl=http://the-url-to-your-repository/ \
-DrepositoryId=the-repository-id-defined-in-your-settings.xml-that-has-your-credentials