ANT Tasks – LoadFile


Apache Ant Tasks – LoadFile



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Description

Loadfile task loads a file and sets its content into property.

Properties








Sr.No Attributes & Description
1

srcFile

Source File.

2

Property

Property to save to.

3

Encoding

Encoding to use when loading the file.

4

failonerror

Whether to halt the build on failure.

5

Quiet

Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Apache Ant has been invoked with the -verbose or -debug switches) or modify the exit status to reflect an error. Setting this to true implies setting failonerror to false.

Usage

Create message.txt with the following content −


Welcome to tutorialspoint.com

Example

Create build.xml with the following content −


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="TutorialPoint" default="info">
   <loadfile property="message" srcFile="message.txt"/>
   <target name="info">            
      <echo message="${message}"/>
   </target>
</project>

Output

Running Ant on the above build file produces the following output −


F:tutorialspointant>ant
Buildfile: F:tutorialspointantbuild.xml

info:
   [echo] Welcome to tutorialspoint.com

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds

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