Description
Load a text file into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified,
the encoding of the current locale is used.
Parameters
| Attribute |
Description |
Required |
| srcFile |
source file |
Yes |
| property |
property to save to |
Yes |
| encoding |
encoding to use when loading the file |
No |
| failonerror |
Whether to halt the build on failure |
No, default "true" |
The LoadFile task supports nested
FilterChains.
Examples
<loadfile property="message"
srcFile="message.txt"/>
Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <echo>
can print this.
<loadfile property="encoded-file"
srcFile="loadfile.xml"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
Load a file using the latin-1 encoding
<loadfile
property="optional.value"
srcFile="optional.txt"
failonerror="false"/>
Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though)
<loadfile
property="mail.recipients"
srcFile="recipientlist.txt">
<filterchain>
<striplinebreaks/>
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this case mail),
merging lines to ensure this happens.
<loadfile
property="system.configuration.xml"
srcFile="configuration.xml">
<filterchain>
<expandproperties/>
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared
in the file in the process.
Source: Apache Ant
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