How to pass custom configuration file to Akka application with Maven? - scala

Question

I'm developing an Akka application using Maven. For testing, I use scalatest. When I run the tests with the configuration in application.conf, everything goes smoothly. But when I try to use custom files it just doesn't work (e.g. I have one common.conf and other files that include that one for adjusting time-scale in Jenkins and so on). I tried running the tests with mvn -Dconfig.file=/path/to/myenv.conf test and -Dconfig.resource=/path/to/myenv.conf test but no luck. I'm using Akka 2.4.0 and Scala 2.11.7.
P.S. Here is the configuration of the plugins in my pom.xml:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>scala-compile</id>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>testCompile</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<args>
<!--arg>-make:transitive</arg-->
<arg>-dependencyfile</arg>
<arg>${project.build.directory}/.scala_dependencies</arg>
</args>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- disable surefire -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<configuration>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- enable scalatest -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
<artifactId>scalatest-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<configuration>
<reportsDirectory>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</reportsDirectory>
<stdout>W</stdout>
<!-- Skip coloring output -->
<junitxml>.</junitxml>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>scala-test</id>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Well, I actually found a way, just adding this to my scalatest maven plugin worked:
<argLine>-Dconfig.resource=/local.conf</argLine>
Is there a way to pass this externally to mvn test?