Filtering is only for text files. You will, and I believe this is
documented a fair bit, mangle binary files if you copy them with
filtering on.
Erik
Ryan Cuprak wrote:
> Hello,
> Noticed something weird with the filter task - even if a file has no tokens
> it still somehow "changes" the file. For configuring Jboss I had written an
> ant script that copied over the configuration files and apply local settings
> (so I could easily move between home and work). However, JBoss refused to
> start after running the ant script. I eventually pinned it down to the
> copy/filter of files in the deploy directory. I would copy the directory
> over and apply a filter to replace mail settings etc. However, the jars in
> the directory would end up toasted and jboss would error out on startup.
> There was no difference in the size of the jars. I am guessing that perhaps
> the jars are now 'unicoded' - but that is just a guess. So, just thought
> that this tidbit might helpful to someone - had me baffled at first.
>
> -Ryan Cuprak
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