Looks like you've got prefix backwards. When you set env to localhost and load this file, you should end up with property settings:
localhost.localhost.host=localhost localhost.qa.host=qatest.domain.com Ordinarily you would probably set up localhost.properties and qa.properties files, and use your env property to trigger which file to load: localhost.properties: host=localhost qa.properties: host=qatest.domain.com Alternatively, you could copy the property after loading them (without prefixes). See http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property HTH, Matt --- Trent Ohannessian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to use the <property> task with a > prefix. Here is the > code I'm using: > > ------------------------------------------ > <property file="./webtest.properties" > prefix="${env}" /> > <echo message="host: ${host}" /> > ------------------------------------------ > > And here is the properties file I'm trying to load: > > ------------------------------------------ > localhost.host=localhost > qa.host=qatest.domain.com > > localhost.port=8080 > qa.port=80 > ------------------------------------------ > > When I use the prefix property option, none of the > properties are read and > they are not usable in the Ant script. What I'm > trying to do is pass in a > property on the command line and then use the > correct set of properties > based on server. I can see the localhost getting > passed into the Ant script > correctly, but it doesn't work even if I hardcode > localhost into prefix="". > Is this the right way to go about doing this? > > Thanks! > Trent > > -- > Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live > long enough to make them > all yourself. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
