Question

I’d like to access the name of a SBT project that uses a plugin in the plugin.

Within build.sbt I have the following:

name := "x_include"

I assumed obtaining this would be rather straight forward via use of name.key.label. This piece of code, however returns the default name of the project, ‘name’ , specified in SBT’s Keys.scala.

I initially thought it may have been some sort of loading/timing issue, however that seems unlikely due to the following console output:

[info] Loading global plugins from /Users/ndidialaneme/.sbt/plugins
[info] Loading project definition from /Users/ndidialaneme/Sandbox/sbt-docbook-plugin/src/sbt-test/docbook/x_include/project
[info] Set current project to x_include (in build file:/Users/ndidialaneme/Sandbox/sbt-docbook-plugin/src/sbt-test/docbook/x_include/)
[info] Updating {file:/Users/ndidialaneme/Sandbox/sbt-docbook-plugin/src/sbt-test/docbook/x_include/}default-b1b964...
    ...
[info] ****  Project: name

The third line in the above output clearly uses my project name while, the last line does not.

Any advice?

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UPDATE:

Paul Butcher’s answer correctly answer’s my question, however my question is poorly worded.

I’m working on an SBT plugin. The name being returned to me is, understandably, the name of the plugin. What I actually need it to return is the name of the project that uses the plugin. I can already see that this adds a fair amount of complexity, however I don’t think it should be impossible to implement.

Hopefully the SBT api/documentation along with the xsbt-reflect code should help me resolve this.

Answer 1

Take a look at xsbt-reflect.