LoadFile

Description

Load a text file into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of the current locale is used. There is no explicit limit upon the size of the file which can be loaded, but loading very large files is not something anyone has yet explored.

Parameters

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

Examples

    <loadfile property="mail.recipients"
      srcFile="recipients.txt" / >

Load file recipients.txt into property "mail.recipients"

    <loadfile property="encoded-file"
      srcFile="loadfile.xml"
      encoding="ISO-8859-1" / >

Load a file using the latin-1 encoding

    <loadfile 
      property="optional.value" 
      srcFile="optional.txt" 
      failonerror="false" />

Load a file, don't fail if it is missing (a message is printed, though)