Ant Developer’s Handbook

<loadFile>

The <loadfile> task offers the simple facility of loading the contents of a text file to a property. Table 4.54 displays the associated attributes for the task.

Table 4.54. Table of <loadfile> Attributes

Attributes	Description
Required
property	The property to set with the contents of the file.
srcfile	The file to load.
Optional
encoding	Specifies the encoding to use when loading the file. Defaults to the current locale.
failonerror	If true, the build will stop if an error occurs. Defaults to true.

Nested Elements

Nested <filterchain> elements are supported.

Examples

This example will load the contents of the foo.txt file to the bar property. If the file does not exist, the build will halt.

 <loadfile srcfile="foo.txt" property="bar"/> ...