LoadProperties Task

LoadProperties

Description

Load a file's contents as Ant properties. This is equivalent to <property file="..."/> except that it supports nested <filterchain> elements.

If you want to simulate property's prefix attribute, please use prefixlines filter.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
srcFile	source file	Yes
encoding	encoding to use when loading the file	No

The LoadProperties task supports nested FilterChains.

Examples

    <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties"/>

Load contents of file.properties as Ant properties.

    <loadproperties srcFile="file.properties">
      <filterchain>
        <linecontains>
          <contains value="import."/>
        </linecontains>
      </filterchain>
    </loadproperties>

Read the lines that contain the string "import." from the file "file.properties" and load them as Ant properties.