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| <h2><a name="filter">Filter</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
| <p>Sets a token filter for this project or read multiple token filter from |
| an input file and sets these as filters. |
| Token filters are used by all tasks that perform file copying operations |
| through the Project commodity methods.</p> |
| <p>Note 1: the token string must not contain the separators chars (@).<br> |
| Note 2: Either token and value attributes must be provided, or only the |
| filtersfile attribute.</p> |
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| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
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| <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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| <td valign="top">token</td> |
| <td valign="top">the token string without @</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes*</td> |
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| <td valign="top">value</td> |
| <td valign="top">the string that should be put to replace the token when the |
| file is copied</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes*</td> |
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| <td valign="top">filtersfile</td> |
| <td valign="top">The file from which the filters must be read. This file must be a formatted as a property file. </td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes*</td> |
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| <p>* see notes 1 and 2 above parameters table.</p> |
| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <pre> <filter token="year" value="2000"/> |
| <copy todir="${dest.dir}" filtering="true"> |
| <fileset dir="${src.dir}"/> |
| </copy></pre> |
| <p>will copy recursively all the files from the <i>src.dir</i> directory into |
| the <i>dest.dir</i> directory replacing all the occurrences of the string <i>@year@</i> |
| with <i>2000.</i></p> |
| <pre> <filter filtersfile="deploy_env.properties"/></pre> |
| will read all property entries from the <i>deploy_env.properties</i> file |
| and set these as filters. |
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