maven-deploy-plugin repository - maven

Question

I want to deploy a file using the maven-deploy-plugin. Currently i have the following in my pom:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-features-xml</id>
<phase>deploy</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<repositoryId>${project.distributionManagement.snapshotRepository.id}</repositoryId>
<url>${project.distributionManagement.snapshotRepository.url}</url>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<file>features.xml</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
I want to change between the snapshot and release repository based on the version. If the project version is 1-SNAPSHOT the file should be deployed to the snapshot repository, if the project is version 1.0 the file should be deployed to the release repository. But the maven-deploy-plugin hard codes it?

Answer 1

This behaviour is already given by default. But you should use a repository manager. You can simple deploy an artifact via mvn deploy usually having a SNAPSHOT release will go into the SNAPSHOT repository in case of a release it will go to the release repository.

Answer 2

The solution that I ended up with was to use the build-helper-maven-plugin and the maven-resources-plugin. This setup means that along with the jar and pom and project will deploy an xml file that can be references in the maven repo as project/xml/features.
Relevant pom plugins:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-artifacts</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>target/features/features.xml</file>
<type>xml</type>
<classifier>features</classifier>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-features</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>target/features</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/features</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>