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<h2><a name="tycho-packaging:build-qualifier"></a>tycho-packaging:build-qualifier</h2>
<p><b>Full name</b>:</p>
<p>org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-packaging-plugin:1.2.0:build-qualifier</p>
<p><b>Description</b>:</p>
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<p>This mojo generates the build qualifier according to the <a class="externalLink" href="http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tasks/pde_version_qualifiers.htm">rules
described in the PDE documentation</a>:</p>
<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
<li>Explicit -DforceContextQualifier command line parameter</li>
<li>forceContextQualifier from
${project.baseDir}/build.properties</li>
<li>A time stamp in the form YYYYMMDDHHMM (e.g. 200605121600)</li>
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<p>The generated qualifier is assigned to
<tt>buildQualifier</tt> project property. The unqualified
project version is assigned to <tt>unqualifiedVersion</tt>
project property. The unqualified version is calculated based on
<tt>${project.version}</tt> and can be used for any Tycho
project and regular Maven project. Different projects can use
different formats to expand the timestamp (not recommended). The
concatenation of <tt>${unqualifiedVersion}</tt> and
<tt>${buildQualifier}</tt>, if not empty, is assigned to the
project property <tt>qualifiedVersion</tt>.</p>
<p>The timestamp generation logic is extensible. The primary use
case is to generate build version qualifier based on the timestamp
of the last project commit. Here is example pom.xml snippet that
enables custom timestamp generation logic</p>
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...
&lt;plugin&gt;
&lt;groupId&gt;org.eclipse.tycho&lt;/groupId&gt;
&lt;artifactId&gt;tycho-packaging-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
&lt;version&gt;${tycho-version}&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;dependencies&gt;
&lt;dependency&gt;
&lt;groupId&gt;timestamp-provider-groupid&lt;/groupId&gt;
&lt;artifactId&gt;timestamp-provider-artifactid&lt;/artifactId&gt;
&lt;version&gt;timestamp-provider-version&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;
&lt;/dependencies&gt;
&lt;configuration&gt;
&lt;timestampProvider&gt;custom&lt;/timestampProvider&gt;
&lt;/configuration&gt;
&lt;/plugin&gt;
...
</pre></div></div>
<p><b>Attributes</b>:</p>
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<li>Requires a Maven project to be executed.</li>
<li>Binds by default to the <a class="externalLink" href="http://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/lifecycles.html">lifecycle phase</a>: <tt>validate</tt>.</li>
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<h3><a name="Optional_Parameters"></a>Optional Parameters</h3>
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<th>Name</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Since</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td><b><a href="#baseDir">baseDir</a></b></td>
<td><tt>File</tt></td>
<td><tt>-</tt></td>
<td><b>Deprecated.</b> This parameter is deprecated and may be removed in future versions
of Tycho.<br /><b>User property is</b>: <tt>project.basedir</tt>.</td>
</tr>
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<td><b><a href="#forceContextQualifier">forceContextQualifier</a></b></td>
<td><tt>String</tt></td>
<td><tt>-</tt></td>
<td>(no description)<br /><b>User property is</b>: <tt>forceContextQualifier</tt>.</td>
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<td><b><a href="#format">format</a></b></td>
<td><tt>SimpleDateFormat</tt></td>
<td><tt>-</tt></td>
<td>
<p>Specify a date format as specified by
java.text.SimpleDateFormat. Timezone used is UTC.</p><br /><b>Default value is</b>: <tt>yyyyMMddHHmm</tt>.<br /></td>
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<td><b><a href="#timestampProvider">timestampProvider</a></b></td>
<td><tt>String</tt></td>
<td><tt>0.16.0</tt></td>
<td>
<p>Role hint of a custom build timestamp provider.</p><br /></td>
</tr>
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<h3><a name="Parameter_Details"></a>Parameter Details</h3>
<p><b><a name="baseDir">baseDir</a>:</b></p>
<div><b>Deprecated.</b> This parameter is deprecated and may be removed in future versions
of Tycho.</div>
<div>(no description)</div>
<ul>
<li><b>Type</b>: <tt>java.io.File</tt></li>
<li><b>Required</b>: <tt>No</tt></li>
<li><b>User Property</b>: <tt>project.basedir</tt></li>
</ul><hr />
<p><b><a name="forceContextQualifier">forceContextQualifier</a>:</b></p>
<div>(no description)</div>
<ul>
<li><b>Type</b>: <tt>java.lang.String</tt></li>
<li><b>Required</b>: <tt>No</tt></li>
<li><b>User Property</b>: <tt>forceContextQualifier</tt></li>
</ul><hr />
<p><b><a name="format">format</a>:</b></p>
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<p>Specify a date format as specified by
java.text.SimpleDateFormat. Timezone used is UTC.</p></div>
<ul>
<li><b>Type</b>: <tt>java.text.SimpleDateFormat</tt></li>
<li><b>Required</b>: <tt>No</tt></li>
<li><b>Default</b>: <tt>yyyyMMddHHmm</tt></li>
</ul><hr />
<p><b><a name="timestampProvider">timestampProvider</a>:</b></p>
<div>
<p>Role hint of a custom build timestamp provider.</p></div>
<ul>
<li><b>Type</b>: <tt>java.lang.String</tt></li>
<li><b>Since</b>: <tt>0.16.0</tt></li>
<li><b>Required</b>: <tt>No</tt></li>
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