Since Apache Ant 1.7
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. If the resource content is empty (maybe after processing a filterchain)
the property is not set.
Since properties are immutable, the task will not change the value of an existing property.
| 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 is true |
| quiet | Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Ant has been invoked with
the -verbose or -debug switches) or modify the exit status to
reflect an error. Setting this to trueimplies setting failonerror to false. |
No; default is false |
The LoadResource task supports nested FilterChains.
Load the entry point of Ant's homepage into property homepage;
an <echo> can print this.
<loadresource property="homepage">
<url url="https://ant.apache.org/index.html"/>
</loadresource>
For more examples see the loadfile task.