maven update pom property - maven

Question

I'm looking for a way to update pom property to given value, i.e. my pom.xml contains:
<properties>
<abc.def>aaaaa</abc.def>
<properties>
now i want to call :
mvn some_plugin:some_goal -Dabc.def=XYZ
and finally my pom.xml should looks like
<properties>
<abc.def>XYZ</abc.def>
<properties>
I was reading about maven-release-plugin & versions-maven-plugin but i do not see there any matching goal.
Thank you in advance for any reply.

Answer 1

mvn versions:update-properties -Dproperties=[XYZ] -DincludeProperties={abc.def}
Read more here.
and here.
In short:
In versions-maven-plugin, the update-properties goal sets properties to the latest versions of specific artifacts.
includeProperties is a comma separated list of properties to update.
properties are any restrictions that apply to specific properties.

Answer 2

The accepted answer does not work for arbitrary values since it performs sanity checks (links to the documentation for set-property goal since for some reason the documentation for update-properties does not mention this).
To set some arbitrary value on a property use set-property since - as documented - it skips sanity checks:
mvn versions:set-property -Dproperty=your.property -DnewVersion=some_value

Answer 3

Ok, i found some case of solution. I'm using maven-replacer-plugin where:
my properties definition in pom.xml :
<properties>
<abc.def>aaaaa</abc.def>
<properties>
my plugin configuration :
<plugin>
<groupId>com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>replacer</artifactId>
<version>1.5.2</version>
<configuration>
<file>pom.xml</file>
<replacements>
<replacement>
<token>${abc.def}</token>
<value>${replacer.abc.def}</value>
</replacement>
</replacements>
</configuration>
</plugin>
and finally my maven invocation :
mvn replacer:replace -Dreplacer.abc.def=XYZ
It works for me but I don know is there any better way to achieve it with maven-relase-plugin and/or versions-maven-plugin as #khmarbaise and #Conan said.

Answer 4

I agree with #khmarbaise above, the versions-maven-plugin will do just this, or you could move to the Maven Release Plugin if you want a much heftier approach to managing your versions, but you could also just run a script to sed the pom.xml file using Jenkins' BUILD_NUMBER environment variable, which is a quicker and dirtier approach.