better versioning (#113)

data/pom.xml

@@ -107,8 +107,13 @@
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
-
         </plugins>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
     </build>
 
     <dependencies>

data/src/main/java/com/microsoft/azure/kusto/data/Utils.java

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Properties;
 
 class Utils {
 
@@ -108,6 +109,13 @@ class Utils {
     }
 
     static String GetPackageVersion() {
-        return Utils.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion();
+        try {
+            Properties props = new Properties();
+            try (InputStream versionFileStream = Utils.class.getResourceAsStream("/app.properties")) {
+                props.load(versionFileStream);
+                return props.getProperty("version").trim();
+            }
+        } catch (Exception ignored) {}
+        return "";
     }
 }

data/src/main/resources/app.properties

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+version=${project.version}