I added a new example in the manual
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/core/trunk/docs/manual/CoreTasks/property.html?revision=712948
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<property environment="env"/>
<property file="${user.name}.properties"/>
<property file="${env.STAGE}.properties"/>
<property file="build.properties"/>
This buildfile uses the properties defined in build.properties. Regarding to
the environment variable STAGE some or all values could be overwritten, e.g.
having STAGE=test and a test.properties you have special values for that (like
another name for the test server). Finally all these values could be
overwritten by personal settings with a file per user.
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Do you think that clarifies that?
Jan
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>Von: Rez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. November 2008 21:57
>An: Ant
>Betreff: RE: AW: token filtering
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>
>Great, thanks for your help> Subject: AW: token filtering>
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:54:36 +0100> From:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> > >I use
>couple of property files packaged into my war file > >destined
>for different environment such as Development, QA, > >Staging,
>Production. I currently keep different versions of > >each
>file for each environment having values specific to each >
>>env and the 4 different build targets for each env refer to >
>>their own matching property files. They're kinda getting out
>> >of hand, having muliple copies of each file! I would like
>to > >keep one version of the files with the changing
>environment > >values replaced with tokens and during the
>compile based on a > >flag or value being set, such as if flag
>equal to QA, > >@ip.address@ should be replaced with
>qa.ip=ip.add.re.ss. How > >is this possile without resorting
>to ant.contrib?> > <property name="flag" value="qa"/>>
><property file="${flag}.properties"/>> <property
>file="default.properties"/>> > > default.properties contains
>ALL values.> qa.properties contains the values which DIFFER
>from the default one.> stageB.properties similar.> flag would
>be "qa" or "stageB" and load the specified file.> If flag is
>something else where you havent any properties file, the>
>non-existing> file is just ignored.> > > Jan> >
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