| Retrieve property value dynamically? | Retrieve property value dynamically? 2003-03-24 - By JONES, MARSHALL, ALABS
Thanks very much. Exactly what I needed!!!
Marshall
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan.Materne@(protected) [mailto:Jan.Materne@(protected)]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:52 AM
To: user@(protected)
Subject: AW: Retrieve property value dynamically?
Use <propertycopy/> of Ant-Contrib.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ant-contrib/ant-co
ntrib/manual/tasks/propertycopy.html
<propertycopy
name="build.date"
from="build.${buildnumber}.date"
/>
Ant-Contrib:
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/
CVS-Source:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/src/n
et/sf/antcontrib/
CVS-Manual:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/manua
l/index.html
Binary: http://gump.covalent.net/jars/latest/ant-contrib/
Jan Mat?rne
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: JONES, MARSHALL, ALABS [mailto:marshalljones@(protected)]
> Gesendet am: Freitag, 21. M?rz 2003 19:29
> An: Ant Users List (E-mail)
> Betreff: Retrieve property value dynamically?
>
> All,
> Can the following be accomplished using properties? I
> have tried several ways to do this, but have been
> unsuccessful. Maybe there is a good reason this is not
> allowed? Or maybe someone can suggest an alternative solution.
>
> I would like to retrieve the value of a property using a
> dynamic name rather than hard-coding the name in my
> buildfile. I am doing this because I do not know the range of
> possible property values until runtime.
>
> Given a property file named "build.properties" with the
> following data.
>
> allbuilds 0,1,2
> build.0.date 20030319
> build.1.date 20030320
> build.2.date 20030321
>
> I need to extract the date of a particular build once the
> user picks a build number to install. The following code is
> an example of what I need to do:
>
> <property file="build.properties"/>
>
> <input validargs="${allbuilds}" addproperty="buildnumber"
> message="Enter build number to install."/>
> <property name="builddate" value="${build.${buildnumber}.date}}"/>
>
> The result should be builddate getting the value of
> "20030320". Any assistance or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Marshall Jones
>
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> AT&T LABS - Custom and Web Services Development
> marshalljones@(protected)
> (813)878-5683
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