I just signed on to contribute something we found useful.
We wanted to filter files based on the project properties. This is because we do something like this in the top of our build.xml file;
<property file="${user.home}/.membership-build.properties" />
<property file="${user.home}/.build.properties" />
<property file="${basedir}/.build.properties" />So, we couldn't use properties pulled from any arbitrary files without modifying the copy task. So, what I did was to add a propsFiltering flag that uses the project properties as a filter set. Here is the diff of the Copy.java file from the 1.5.3-1 src dist. We've used this and it works great!
David
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> import java.util.Iterator;
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> // DAK: filter from props
> protected boolean propsFiltering = false;
> // DAK
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> // DAK: filter from props
> /**
> * If true, enables props filtering.
> */
> public void setPropsFiltering(boolean propsFiltering) {
> this.propsFiltering = propsFiltering;
> }
> // DAK
>
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> }
> // DAK: filter from props
> if (propsFiltering) {
> FilterSet props = new FilterSet();
> Hashtable projectProps = getProject().getProperties();
> Iterator iter = projectProps.keySet().iterator();
> while (iter.hasNext()) {
> String name = (String)iter.next();
> props.addFilter(name, (String)projectProps.get(name));
> }
> executionFilters.addFilterSet(props);
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> // DAK:
