| How to make "outputproperty " element work??? | How to make "outputproperty " element work??? 2007-06-28 - By broken connection
Hi Ninju,
I really really want to thank you for that great help. I almost spent 7
hours and was still trying to figure it out when your reply came.I tried
everything from <antcontrib> to <replace> to <propertyset> and god knows
what else....
And you made it sound soo easy...wow..you are genius man.
Thanks again for that great help...really appreciate it!!!!!
On 6/28/07, Ninju Bohra <ninju_bohra@(protected)> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I made up the following quick test and the 'outputproperty' of the <java>
> task worked just fine
>
> Stupid JAVA class to generate the 'new' password and write the value to
> System.out (so that it can be captured into the 'outputproperty')
>
> public class GeneratePassword {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> System.out.println(args[0].toUpperCase());
> }
> }
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> I created the following property file to contain the current password text
>
> value.properties:
> my_password=Secret
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Here is the quick build.xml with the target
>
> <project name="test" default="convert_password">
> <property name="prop_file" value="value.properties"/>
> <target name="convert_password">
> <property file="${prop_file}"/>
> <echo> Current value of my_password is ${my_password}</echo>
> <java classname="GeneratePassword" outputproperty="new_password">
> <arg value="${my_password}"/>
> <classpath>
> <pathelement path="."/>
> </classpath>
> </java>
> <echo>New password is ${new_password}</echo>
> <copy file="${prop_file}" tofile="new_${prop_file}"/>
> <replace file="new_${prop_file}" token="${my_password}"
> value="${new_password}"/>
> <echo>The new password is stored in the file called
> new_${prop_file}</echo>
> </target>
> </project>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> And here is the output:
>
> C:\workspace\Test\bin>ant
> Buildfile: build.xml
> convert_password:
> [echo] Current value of my_password is Secret
> [echo] New password is SECRET
> [echo] The new password is stored in the file called
> new_value.properties
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 0 seconds
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> In my example I wrote the 'updated' password into a copy of the of the
> original file...if you want to overwrite the original value just skip the
> <copy> task and adjust the "file" attribute in the <replace> task to match
> the orginial file name
>
> Hope that helps....
>
> Ninju
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: broken connection <brokenconnection@(protected)>
> To: user@(protected)
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:22:59 PM
> Subject: How to make "outputproperty" element work???
>
>
> Hi Friends,
> I need some help with "outputproperty" element. I have a properties file,
> i
> want to pass in one of the property to a java program and read the
> response
> back and store it in the same property using ant for eg:
>
> my_property=plain_password
>
> //I want to pass this to a java program and the property should be
> modified
> as:
> my_property=encrypted_password
>
> I tried to use "JAVA" task but redirection was not working so I used this
> "exec" task instead:
>
> <filter filtersfile="myfile.properties"/>
>
> <target name="test">
> <exec executable="${ext}" resolveexecutable="true" os="Windows XP">
> <arg value="/c"/>
> <arg value="call-program.${ext} ${my_property}"/>
> <redirector output="myfile.properties"
> outputproperty="my_password" append="true" />
> </exec>
> </target>
>
> But its not working. I am able to redirect the output to some other file
> eg,
> "xyz.txt" but then too the outputproperty element is not working,I want
> the
> output as:
> property=value
>
> I have tried a lot, can somebody please give me a clue as to where i am
> going wrong.I would really appreciate that.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
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