I was wondering why you can't upgrade to ant 1.8.1?
--- On Sat, 10/30/10, ritchie <ganesh.devaraj...@baml.com> wrote:
From: ritchie <ganesh.devaraj...@baml.com>
Subject: Re: echo a property
To: user@ant.apache.org
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 1:05 PM
Dominique Devienne-2 wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:15 AM, ritchie <ganesh.devaraj...@baml.com>
> wrote:
>> I created a java class to read that property from the properties file
>> and
>> then passed it on to another java class which does the deployment. I am
>> not
>> sure whether this is a limitation in ant.
>
> You can call it a limitation of sort, sure.
>
> But there's an easy work-around. Instead of having a single property file
> with
>
> foo.eg=1
> bar.eg=2
> baz.eg=3
>
> have 3 property files foo.properties, bar.properties, etc.. containing
> the un-suffixed eg (and co.) properties, and in the build file simply
> <property file="${env}.properties" />.
>
> This is the "Ant way" (tm) of doing this that doesn't require jumping
> thry any hoops. --DD
>
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The idea is to minimize the number of properties files also, that is why we
have set the property for different environment in a single properties file.
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