Include version number in deployed artifacts

[dmcassel]

After deploying a project that uses marklogic-unit-test, there is nothing in MarkLogic that indicates what version of marklogic-unit-test was deployed. In scenarios where an environment is not updated for an extended period, that would be useful information.

There's probably a reasonably simple way to include a .txt file with the version number in the packaged artifacts, which would end up in the modules database of a project that uses the framework. Even better -- could it be injected into default.xqy to display in the UI?

[rjrudin]

Would you want the version to be in some response from the REST extension, or possibly from a new REST extension that only returns the version (and possibly other metadata in the future)?

[dmcassel]

@rjrudin I can imagine a couple options for this.

• Added to setup.xqy to be part of server-side display build.
• Added to an API that setup.xqy's client-side JS could call and display (which would also allow other ways of getting the info)
• .\gradlew.bat mlUnitTest --version. This could be useful when running tests in pipelines.

I think having it visible in the UI and through a gradle task would be great. If I had to pick one, I'd lean toward the UI based on how I use the framework, but others might feel differently.