#367: Include parent projects in property resolution

[andrzejj0]

Includes parent projects in property resolution for property updates. Instead of only considering the model of the current project, will also consult parent models to see if there are property definitions for properties defined in the current project.

[andrzejj0]

@slawekjaranowski Please review.

[andrzejj0]

As you can see, tried that, but it caused the it-encoding-001 test to fail. Files.newBufferedReader assumes UTF-8 for input, which is not always the case.

[madorb]

well this was an unexpected (unwanted) surprise! is there any way to disable this functionality?

consider users of say, spring boot that have spring-boot-dependencies as their parent

it's quite unhelpful to now see the full list of all properties from the parent by default. Most of those are for dependencies any given application doesn't use.

I think the functionality itself is a great thing to have, and is important for lots of use cases - but if you're using a 3rd party BOM as a parent it's a big step backwards in helpfulness. This radical of a change really should come with a configuration option either in the xml or command line.

[andrzejj0]

@madorb yes, but only in the upcoming release, see #795