Getting the version of the current clojure project in the repl

Question

Is it possible to grab the project information within the clojure repl?

For example, if there was a project defined:

(defproject blahproject "0.1.2" ....) 

When running a repl in the project directory, is there a function like this?

> (project-version)  ;=> 0.1.2  

Answer 1

While you can parse project.clj yourself, this may be annoying. It's also a lot of work. Instead, you can just do:

(System/getProperty "projectname.version") 

Answer 2

Leiningen project files are just Clojure data :)

(-> "/path/to/project.clj" slurp read-string (nth 2))