<utility : LoadProperties>

Description

Load a file's contents as Ant properties.

Parameters

Attribute Description Type Required?
classpath Set the classpath to use when looking up a resource. Path ?
classpathref Set the classpath to use when looking up a resource, given as reference to a <path> defined elsewhere Reference ?
encoding Encoding to use for input, defaults to the platform's default encoding.

For a list of possible values see http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/internat/encoding.doc.html .

String ?
resource Set the resource name of a property file to load. String ?
srcfile Set the file to load. File ?

Parameters accepted as nested elements

<filterchain> ...

FilterChain may contain a chained set of filter readers.
Attribute Description Type Required
refid Makes this instance in effect a reference to another FilterChain instance.

You must not set another attribute or nest elements inside this element if you make it a reference.

Reference ?

<classpath> ...

This object represents a path as used by CLASSPATH or PATH environment variable.

<sometask>
  <somepath>
    <pathelement location="/path/to/file.jar" />
    <pathelement path="/path/to/file2.jar:/path/to/class2;/path/to/class3" />
    <pathelement location="/path/to/file3.jar" />
    <pathelement location="/path/to/file4.jar" />
  </somepath>
</sometask>

The object implemention sometask must provide a method called createSomepath which returns an instance of Path. Nested path definitions are handled by the Path object and must be labeled pathelement.

The path element takes a parameter path which will be parsed and split into single elements. It will usually be used to define a path from an environment variable.

Attribute Description Type Required
refid Makes this instance in effect a reference to another Path instance.

You must not set another attribute or nest elements inside this element if you make it a reference.

Reference ?
path Parses a path definition and creates single PathElements. String ?