LoadResource Task

LoadResource

Description

Load a text resource into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of the current locale is used. Resources to load are specified as nested resource elements or single element resource collections.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
property	property to save to	Yes
encoding	encoding to use when loading the resource	No
failonerror	Whether to halt the build on failure	No, default "true"

The LoadResource task supports nested FilterChains.

Examples

<loadresource property="homepage">
  <url url="http://ant.apache.org/index.html"/>
</loadresource>

Load the entry point of Ant's homepage into property "homepage"; an <echo> can print this.

For more examples see the loadfile task.