How to get the values of server defined in the settings.xml to use them in my pom.xml?

Question

I know I can retrieve some settings.xml parameters using properties, like, for example ${settings.localRepository} to get the location of the local repository.

Now imagine my settings.xml contains the following servers definition:

<servers>
    <server>
        <id>server-dev</id>
        <username>devuser</username>
        <password>devpass</password>
    </server>
    <server>
        <id>server-hom</id>
        <username>homuser</username>
        <password>hompass</password>
    </server>
</servers>

Is there a way, given an id of a server to get the value of any parameter? For example, something like ${settings.servers.server.server-dev.username} would return devuser.

I've already tried the following:

${settings.servers.server.server-dev.username}
${settings.servers.server-dev.username}
${settings.servers.server[server-dev].username}
${settings.servers[server-dev].username}

but none of them worked...

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Regarding this page, this is not possible. However, as it is a feature not correctly documented, I still have some hope to do that in this way...

Answer 1

In case you are on Maven 3+, this can be achieved with servers-maven-extension. Once registered, settings.xml/servers content can be referenced using ${settings.servers.server.<server id>.<property>} (e.g. ${settings.servers.server.server-dev.username}).

disclosure: I am the maintainer of the project.