I just played around with the -properties parameter. Whatever
propertyfile file you select with -propertfile takes presidence over
any properties loaded with the task, but any
properties specified with the -D command line parameter takes
presidence over the ones set via the -propertyfile p
Thanks David. I got essentially the same information from supareno above. But
yours goes into much more details and I'm sure that would be helpful to
other people who are even newer to ant than I am.
My original question/curiosity remains: Is there no way to access the name
of the file passed in
My build.xml files include something like this:
[...]
This way, the default name of the build properties file is
build.properties, so if the user uses that as their build properties
file, they don't have to put anything on the command line. If the user
wants to use a different one
hmm...
That's an interesting solution. I'm not a big fan of specifying a property
on the command line. Especially with the -D. But this would be a way to get
things done. Thanks.
I just feel that saying:
ant -propertyfile filename.properties test
looks a lot better/user-friendly than
ant
goelshek,
you can use this:
ant -D=
which in your case will produce
ant -Duser.property.file=foo.properties test
property file name: ${user.property.file}
if in your properties file you define some properties
e.g.
prop1=foo
prop2=bar
then, you can access them in ant wi
