mvn-tag-push

Small Toolchain for tagging and pushing safely for Maven projects. On top of grunt-bump.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install mvn-tag-push -g

Now you can bootstrap the needed things in your maven project:

mvn-tag-push-setup

package.json and Gruntfile.js are created, run

npm install

and you're good to go.

Motivation

I work in a coperate environment where i have to tag in order to deploy to a test instance. So I often messed up versions, because my tests where not clean an so on. I was tired of the repetitive steps i had to follow (and remember) in order to deploy. So I wanted to automate some things.

Features

• executes mvn install before any changes/tagging
• if mvn install fails, no tag is created, no version is changed
• able to execute any grunt task in advance to check/do project specific things
• grunt-bump handles semantic versioning
• bump arguments (major, minor, patch etc) are passed to grunt bump, prerelease as default
  • bump changes the version in package.json, commits, tags and pushes the changes including the newly created tag
• does not change the pom version currently

Usage

mvn-tag-push-setup

Used to create a preconfigrued package.json with all dependencies and a Gruntfile.js which calls the module to define the tasks and the workflow

Options

mvn-tag-push-setup --version 0.1.0 --name my-awesome-project

Grunt

Gruntfile.js

Default Gruntfile, as created by mvn-tag-push-setup is:

var fs = require('fs');
 
var mvnTagPush = require('mvn-tag-push')
 
module.exports = function(grunt, preRunTask) {
 
    mvnTagPush(grunt);
}

The Grunt instance is passed to the plugin to define the tasks.

Task: release

grunt release

executes mvn install, bumps version with grunt-bump prerelease, tags, pushes All version modifiers grunt-bump offers are supported.

Further Examples:

grunt release:patch
grunt release:major
grunt release:premajor
.
.
.

See grunt-bump docs for full list.

Task: push

grunt push

Just executes mvn install and pushes.

preRunTask

Plugin is able to run any grunt task before doing its work:

var fs = require('fs');
 
var mvnTagPush = require('mvn-tag-push')
 
module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
    grunt.registerTask('my-pre-task', function() {
        console.log("pretask executed")
    });
 
    mvnTagPush(grunt, 'my-pre-task');
 
}

Taskname is passed as second argument to mvn-tag-push. Pretask is only executed on task release

To-Do

• Maybe convert to proper grunt-task
• Port to gulp
• Ability to pass config to underlying modules (e.g. grunt bump)