I use propertyfile but none of the funky stuff you're worrying about. However, if you're interested in feature requests ;)
- it would be very nice if propertyfile would preserve comments etc. This is already mentioned in the task documentation as a nice-to-have. I've looked around the web and can't find any utility for editing property files that you could use and have considered writing one. Right now I'm trying to polish up a set of Jython task definitions however. - I would also like a property file merge type operation where the contents of one property file could be added to another property file and override any shared properties. Basically what I want is a sort of inheritance for property files. My use case for this is related to managing configuration files for multiple j2ee containers. I have a common properties file that contains things like jdbc driver names, topic and queue names etc. But jboss and weblogic have different naming conventions for some of these things, one container will need an extra configuration parameter, different versions of the same container will have some differences, so I want to do a merge like this: container.properties overridden and extended by jboss.properties overridden and extended by jboss244.properties The result of this is applied via a copy/with/filterset operation to jboss244 filter configuration files. -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:23 AM To: ant-dev; [email protected] Subject: <propertyfile> use cases request I'm knee-deep in refactoring <propertyfile> to actually work in as many cases as I can envision. It has been in several states of disrepair in the past and I'm trying to fix it so that <entry> defaults and operations all work as expected. There is some odd code in there that allows operations besides "+", "-", and "=" and I'm wondering if anyone ever used these. They are not documented for the 'operation' attribute and I plan on removing them. Are folks using date operations with <propertyfile>? If so, could you send me some samples of how you are using it so that I can roll those into the test cases? I'm not quite sure how the date operations should be specified. It looks as though if 'value' is used in conjuction with 'type="date"' and 'operation' then the value attribute is taken as a date (Calendar to be more precise) and then added or subtracted from the actual value. It seems odd to apply those kinds of operations on two dates, but maybe I'm missing something. You don't really add one date to another, you add days, or hours, or years. Is there some other API that I should be looking into for date operations so that 'value' is not pulled in as a Calendar object when an operation is specified? What does a date of "never" do? Why would you ever use it? Is it just a placeholder for an unknown date? Again, send me <propertyfile> use cases, especially if doing date operations. If you don't then risk me breaking it! :) Thanks, Erik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
