As often, I was wrong. I had understood the back-slashes were there even for
the 'ts' ANT property, not just in the properties file, and was furthermore
stating what Ant should have done, which it already did... Oh my! --DD
P:\org_apache\antx>ant -f tstamp.xml
Buildfile: tstamp.xml
test:
[delete] Deleting: P:\org_apache\antx\tstamp.properties
[propertyfile] Creating new property file:
P:\org_apache\antx\tstamp.properties
[echo]
[echo] Before loading properties file:
[echo] ts1 = 22.05.2002 AD 15:41:18.271
[echo] ts2 = ${ts2}
[echo]
[echo] Properties file content:
[exec] #Wed May 22 15:41:18 CDT 2002
[exec] ts2=22.05.2002 AD 15\:41\:18.271
[echo]
[echo] After loading properties file:
[echo] ts1 = 22.05.2002 AD 15:41:18.271
[echo] ts2 = 22.05.2002 AD 15:41:18.271
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
P:\org_apache\antx>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- ANT build file to test a specific feature or bug of ANT.
Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> May 2002
-->
<project name="tstamp" default="test" basedir=".">
<target name="test">
<tstamp>
<format property="ts1"
pattern="dd.MM.yyyy G HH:mm:ss.SSS "
locale="CANADA_FRENCH" />
</tstamp>
<property name="propfile"
location="${ant.project.name}.properties" />
<delete file="${propfile}" quiet="true" />
<propertyfile file="${propfile}">
<entry key="ts2" value="${ts1}" />
</propertyfile>
<echo message="" />
<echo message="Before loading properties file:" />
<echo message="ts1 = ${ts1}" />
<echo message="ts2 = ${ts2}" />
<echo message="" />
<echo message="Properties file content:" />
<exec executable="type" vmlauncher="false" os="Windows 2000">
<arg value="${propfile}" />
</exec>
<property file="${propfile}" />
<echo message="" />
<echo message="After loading properties file:" />
<echo message="ts1 = ${ts1}" />
<echo message="ts2 = ${ts2}" />
</target>
</project>
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 3:18 PM
To: Ant Developers List
Subject: Re: I may have found a bug??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominique Devienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Ant Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: I may have found a bug??
> Huh? Care to elaborate?
>
> And if you don't use that 'ts' ANT property to generate a properties file?
>
> And even if you do, shouldn't it be <propertyfile> or whatever else that
> when generating the properties file from <entry name="" value=""/> (or the
> likes) do the proper escaping for the value!?!?!?
>
> I recently learned that there's no escaping character for ANT, or XML for
> that matter, so why is there one here? --DD
RTM on java.util.Properties.store ...Ant implements the spec, no more, no
less
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