On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:36:36PM +0100, Jon Skeet wrote:
> In my old build procedure I had a few steps which take a normal file
> (.java or whatever) and a properties file. The properties file had, for
> instance:
>
> Version=foo
> Name=bar
>
> I have a little Java program which looks through the properties file,
> finds all the properties within it, then does a replace on all the
> "normal" files using these properties wrapped in <%...%>. In this case,
> it would be the equivalent of:
>
> <replace {insert src files here}>
> <replacefilter token="<%Version%>" value="foo"/>
> <replacefilter token="<%Name%>" value="bar"/>
> </replace>
>
> However, I'd like the property files to determine the tokens, as my
> previous build did.
>
> I can probably hack something up in Replace, something like:
>
> <multiplereplacefilter file="xxx.properties" prefix="<%" postfix="%>" />
>
> but I'm not sure that such a patch would get accepted. (Speaking of
> which, has anyone glanced at my Zip and VSS patches yet?)
>
> It feels slightly silly to create a whole new task for something so
> similar to Replace.
> Ideas welcome.
>
> Jon
Hi Jon.
As fas as I understand your problem description, the filtering mechanism of the
copy task should help you. Just define tokens to be filtered like this:
<filter token="Version" value="${build.vers}"/>
...
and copy your source template file into your source tree before compiling with:
<copy tofile="mysrc.java" filtering="on" file="mysrc.java.templ"/>
Have you been looking for this?
Kai
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