Answering my own question.
Use something like teh following::
<u:properties var="props" file="${jarsListFile}"
/>
<j:set var="jarsFlist" value="${props.getProperty(
'jarsFlist' )}" />
Cheers,
-- Chris
--- Chris Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am trying to read a mutable property from a file
> (I
> use it within a loop). I have tried using the
> ant-contrib <var> task with "unset=true" -- as shown
> below. But this is not reseting the Ant property??
>
> Does anyone know a maven way of reading properties
> from a file which allows for the properties to be
> true, mutable variables??
>
> Thanks,
> -- Chris
>
> ---------------------
> This is what I tried::
>
> <ant:echo> ENTER jarsFlist= ${jarsFlist}
> </ant:echo>
> <ant:var name="jarsFlist" unset="true" />
> <ant:echo> UNSET jarsFlist= ${jarsFlist}
> </ant:echo>
> <ant:property file="${jarsListFile}"/>
> <ant:echo> FINAL jarsFlist= ${jarsFlist}
> </ant:echo>
>
> -------------------------
> And this is what I see::
> [echo] ENTER jarsFlist=
>
commons-beanutils/jars/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar,commons-cli/jars/commons-cli-1.0.jar,commons-collections/jar
>
s/commons-collections-3.1.jar,commons-dbcp/jars/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar,commons-digester/jars/commons-digester-1.5.jar,commons-logging/jars/c
>
ommons-logging-1.0.3.jar,commons-messenger/jars/commons-messenger-1.0-dev-14.jar,commons-pool/jars/commons-pool-1.2.jar,dom4j/jars/dom4j-1.4
>
.jar,junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar,jms/jars/jms-1.0.2.jar,log4j/jars/log4j-1.2.8.jar,spiritcache/jars/spirit-cache-2.0.14.jar,xalan/jars/xalan-
>
2.5.1.jar,xerces/jars/xercesImpl-2.6.1.jar,xml-apis/jars/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar,
> [echo] UNSET jarsFlist=
>
commons-beanutils/jars/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar,commons-cli/jars/commons-cli-1.0.jar,commons-collections/jar
>
s/commons-collections-3.1.jar,commons-dbcp/jars/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar,commons-digester/jars/commons-digester-1.5.jar,commons-logging/jars/c
>
ommons-logging-1.0.3.jar,commons-messenger/jars/commons-messenger-1.0-dev-14.jar,commons-pool/jars/commons-pool-1.2.jar,dom4j/jars/dom4j-1.4
>
.jar,junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar,jms/jars/jms-1.0.2.jar,log4j/jars/log4j-1.2.8.jar,spiritcache/jars/spirit-cache-2.0.14.jar,xalan/jars/xalan-
>
2.5.1.jar,xerces/jars/xercesImpl-2.6.1.jar,xml-apis/jars/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar,
> [echo] FINAL jarsFlist=
>
commons-beanutils/jars/commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar,commons-cli/jars/commons-cli-1.0.jar,commons-collections/jar
>
s/commons-collections-3.1.jar,commons-dbcp/jars/commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar,commons-digester/jars/commons-digester-1.5.jar,commons-logging/jars/c
>
ommons-logging-1.0.3.jar,commons-messenger/jars/commons-messenger-1.0-dev-14.jar,commons-pool/jars/commons-pool-1.2.jar,dom4j/jars/dom4j-1.4
>
.jar,junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar,jms/jars/jms-1.0.2.jar,log4j/jars/log4j-1.2.8.jar,spiritcache/jars/spirit-cache-2.0.14.jar,xalan/jars/xalan-
>
2.5.1.jar,xerces/jars/xercesImpl-2.6.1.jar,xml-apis/jars/xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar,
>
>
>
>
>
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