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| <title>LoadFile Task</title> |
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| <h2><a name="loadfile">LoadFile</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
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| Load a text file into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified, |
| the encoding of the current locale is used. |
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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">srcFile</td> |
| <td valign="top">source file</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td> |
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| <td valign="top">property</td> |
| <td valign="top">property to save to</td> |
| <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td> |
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| <td valign="top">encoding</td> |
| <td valign="top">encoding to use when loading the file</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
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| <td valign="top">failonerror</td> |
| <td valign="top">Whether to halt the build on failure</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default "true"</td> |
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| The LoadFile task supports nested <a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html"> |
| FilterChain</a>s. |
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| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <pre> <loadfile property="message" |
| srcFile="message.txt" /> |
| </pre> |
| Load file message.txt into property "message"; an <tt><echo></tt> |
| can print this. |
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| <pre> <loadfile property="encoded-file" |
| srcFile="loadfile.xml" |
| encoding="ISO-8859-1" /> |
| </pre> |
| Load a file using the latin-1 encoding |
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| <pre> <loadfile |
| property="optional.value" |
| srcFile="optional.txt" |
| failonerror="false" /> |
| </pre> |
| Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though) |
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| <pre> <loadfile |
| property="mail.recipients" |
| srcFile="recipientlist.txt"> |
| <filterchain> |
| <<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#striplinebreaks">striplinebreaks</a>/> |
| </filterchain> |
| </loadfile> |
| </pre> |
| Load a property which can be used as a parameter for another task (in this case mail), |
| merging lines to ensure this happens. |
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| <pre> <loadfile |
| property="system.configuration.xml" |
| srcFile="configuration.xml"> |
| <<a href="../CoreTypes/filterchain.html#expandproperties">expandproperties</a>/> |
| </loadfile> |
| </pre> |
| Load an XML file into a property, expanding all properties declared |
| in the file in the process. |
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| <p align="center">Copyright © 2001-2002 Apache Software Foundation. All rights |
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