LoadProperties Task

LoadProperties

Description

Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This is equivalent to <property file="..."/> except that it supports nested <filterchain> elements and it cannot be specified outside a target.

If you want to simulate property's prefix attribute, please use prefixlines filter.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
srcFile	source file	Yes

The LoadProperties task supports nested FilterChains.

Examples

    <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"/>

Load contents of file.properties as Ant properties.

    <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties">
      <filterchain>
        <linecontains>
          <contains value="import."/>
        </linecontains>
      </filterchain>
    </loadproperties>

Read the lines that contain the string "import." from the file "file.properties" and load them as Ant properties.