I don't see how you can achieve what you're after. Why do you need to
normalize all access through deploy.property? Why not simply use
${site_name}.deployment.dir?
- Don
--- Stefan Lecho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll try to explain my problem more appropriate.
>
> site.property
> site_name=jakarta.apache.org
> deploy.property
> jakarta.apache.org.deployment.dir=html
>
> When using deploy.property I want to get the key
> '${site_name}.deployment.dir' which in this case gets resolved to
> 'jakarta.apache.org.deployment.dir'.
>
> So if 'html' should be read from deploy.property, I should use
> ${jakarta.apache.org.deployment.dir}. 'jakarta.apache.org' is
> declared as
> ${site_name}. As a result, I will have to use
> '${${site_name}.deployment.dir}'
>
> What I want is that <property name="deploy.dir"
> value="${${site_name}.deployment.dir}"/> evaluates to <property
> name="deploy.dir" value="html"/>.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 1:32 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Nested properties/parameters
>
>
> You can't nest properties like this, but is that what you want to do?
>
> Seems to me you want something like:
>
> <property name="result" value="${site_name}.deployment.dir"/>
>
> And then you could have a properties file that defines all the
> deployment directories for each site you're using:
>
> site_1.deployment.dir=/site_1/dir
> site_2.deployment.dir=/site_2/dir
>
> and so on. Then when you want to deploy to 'site_2' for example, just
> specify -Dsite_name=site_2 on the ant command line when running your
> script.
>
> --- Stefan Lecho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to pass a site name as a command line parameter and
> then
> > use it
> > to construct another property name.
> > The way to do this should be something similar to the following :
> > Command-line parameter: 'site_name'
> > Property name: 'site_name.deployment.dir'
> > Resulting property: <property name="result"
> > value="${${site_name}.deployment.dir}"/>
> >
> > The result of ${result} is '${site_name}.deployment.dir', which is
> > not ok.
> >
> > How can I solve this issue ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Stefan Lecho
> > Internet Application Developer
> > Wireless Technical Contact
> > IconMedialab, Brussels +32.2.506.23.31
> > http://www.iconmedialab.com
> >
>
>
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> Don
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