Apache Ant Tasks - LoadFile

Description

Loadfile task loads a file and sets its content into property.

Properties

Sr.No	Attributes & Description
1	srcFile Source File.
2	Property Property to save to.
3	Encoding Encoding to use when loading the file.
4	failonerror Whether to halt the build on failure.
5	Quiet Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Apache Ant has been invoked with the -verbose or -debug switches) or modify the exit status to reflect an error. Setting this to true implies setting failonerror to false.

Usage

Create message.txt with the following content −

Welcome to tutorialspoint.com

Example

Create build.xml with the following content −

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="TutorialPoint" default="info">
   <loadfile property="message" srcFile="message.txt"/>
   <target name="info">            
      <echo message="${message}"/>
   </target>
</project>

Output

Running Ant on the above build file produces the following output −

F:\tutorialspoint\ant>ant
Buildfile: F:\tutorialspoint\ant\build.xml

info:
   [echo] Welcome to tutorialspoint.com

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds