LoadResource

Since Ant 1.7

Description

Load a text resource into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of the current locale is used. Resources to load are specified as nested resource elements or single element resource collections.

Parameters

Attribute Description Required
property property to save to Yes
encoding encoding to use when loading the resource No
failonerror Whether to halt the build on failure No, default "true"

The LoadResource task supports nested FilterChains.

Examples

<loadresource property="homepage">
  <url url="http://ant.apache.org/index.html"/>
</loadresource>
Load the entry point of Ant's homepage into property "homepage"; an <echo> can print this.

For more examples see the loadfile task.