Question

In Maven, is there a way to map one file to another file with a different name? I know there is a way to map a file to a different file with the same name under a certain directory with the following:

<mapping>
  <directory>/some/path/to/dir</directory>
  <sources>
    <source>/some/path/to/file/xyz</source>
  </sources>
</mapping>

This will map /some/path/to/file/xyz to /some/path/to/dir/xyz. Instead I’d like to have /some/path/to/file/xyz be mapped to /some/path/to/dir/abc. Is there a clean maven way of doing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No directly. You can use Ant’s copy task via the antrun maven plugin. See Mapping File Names

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.6</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase> <!-- a lifecycle phase --> </phase>
        <configuration>
          <target>
            <copy todir="/some/path/to/dir">
              <fileset dir="/some/path/to/file/"/>
              <mapper/><!-- you'll make the name mapping configuration here-->
            </copy>
          </target>
        </configuration>
        <goals>
          <goal>run</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>