(Anyone) using propertyfile ?

[Sam Smoot]

Trying to use this in a build.xml for ANT:

 
<propertyfile 
file="c:\my.properties" 
comment="My properties" >
<entry  key="akey" value="avalue" />
<entry  key="adate" type="date" value="now"/>
<entry  key="anint" type="int" operation="+"/>
<entry  key="formated.int" type="int" default="0013" operation="+" pattern="0000"/>
<entry  key="formated.date" type="date" value="now" pattern="DDD HH:mm"/>
</propertyfile>

According to the documentation in ANT, this should update the my.properties file with a current date stamp / information. I get zip.
HELP!

[Greg Charles]

Looks like you found a mistake in their documentation. The line:
<entry key="anint" type="int" operation="+"/>
must have a "default" attribute to be valid. Try:
<entry key="anint" type="int" default="0" operation="+"/>
Or you can just comment it out, since you're only looking for the datestamp part.

[Sam Smoot]

Ok.. took the line out... still nothing..
I do get this error:

Detected Java version: 1.3 in: c:\WebSphere\AppServer\java\jre
Detected OS: Windows 2000
parsing buildfile c:\ant\Project1Build.xml with URI = file:c:/ant/Project1Build.xml
Project base dir set to: C:\ant
BUILD FAILED
file:c:/ant/Project1Build.xml:28: Unexpected element "propertyfile"
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.ProjectHelperImpl.parse(ProjectHelperImpl.java:170)
at org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.configureProject(ProjectHelper.java:117)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:597)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:196)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235)
Total time: 1 second

The XML file is:

 
<project name="Project1" default="classes" basedir=".">
<property name="Project1.dir" value="c:/ant/Project1CodeBase"/>
<property name="lib.dir" value="c:/ant/Project1CodeBase/webApplication/WEB-INF/lib"/>
<property name="websphere.dir" value="c:/Websphere/Appserver/lib"/>
<property name="src.dir" value="c:/ant/Project1CodeBase/source"/>
        <property name="build.classpath" 
value="${websphere.dir}/J2EE.jar;${lib.dir}/struts.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-beanutils.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-collections.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-dbcp.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-digester.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-fileupload.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-lang.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-logging.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-pool.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-resources.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-services.jar;${lib.dir}/commons-validator.jar"/>
<property name="build.classes" value="c:/ant/Project1BuildClasses"/>
<property name="war.dir" value="c:/ant/deployStuff/warfiles"/>
        <property name="email_list" value="[e-mail]"/>
<!-- This is the label to pull from starteam -->
<property name="starteam.label" value="TestAnt"/>


<propertyfile 
file="c:\my.properties" 
comment="My properties" >
<entry  key="akey" value="avalue" />
<entry  key="adate" type="date" value="now"/>
<entry  key="formated.int" type="int" default="0013" operation="+" pattern="0000"/>
<entry  key="formated.date" type="date" value="now" pattern="DDD HH:mm"/>
</propertyfile>

<target name="classes">
                <tstamp/>
                <echo message="Compiling source code"/>
                <javac  srcdir="${src.dir}"
                        destdir="${build.classes}"
                        classpath="${build.classpath}"
                        optimize="on"
                        debug="off"
                        deprecation="on"
                        target="1.2"/>

        </target>  

<target name="getsource">
<tstamp/>
<echo message="Getting Source Code"/>
<stcheckout URL="StarTeam:1024/Project1/source"
username="myName"
password="password"
rootlocalfolder="${Project1.dir}"
forced="true"/>
</target>
<target name="labelFilesForBuild">
<tstamp>
    <format property="nowstamp" pattern="yyyyMMddHHmmss" locale="en"/>
  </tstamp>  
<stlabel URL="StarTeam:1024/Project1/source"
username="myName"
password="password"
label="${starteam.label}"
lastbuild="${nowstamp}"
description="ANT Production Build"/>
</target>
    
<target name="buildwar">
<tstamp/>
<echo message="Building War File"/>
<war destfile="deployStuff/warfiles/OMSWeb.war" webxml="Project1CodeBase/webApplication/WEB-INF/web.xml">
  <fileset dir="${oms.dir}/webApplication"/>
  <classes dir="${build.classes}"/>
</war>
</target>
<target name="buildear">
<tstamp/>
<echo message="Building EAR File"/>
<ear destfile="deployStuff/earfiles/OMSEar.ear" appxml="${Project1.dir}/META-INF/application.xml">
<fileset dir="${war.dir}" includes="*.jar,*.war"/>
<fileset dir="${Project1.dir}" followsymlinks="true" includes="*.xmi"/>
</ear>
</target>

(And I thought Tying shoes was tough.)
[ February 12, 2003: Message edited by: Sam Smoot ]

[Greg Charles]

Oh, I see. PropertyFile, unlike Property, is a task. It has to be part of a target to work.

[Sam Smoot]

I did that before and had the same problem...
It works now...
Thanks!

[Hann-Yu Chang]

I am having the same problem. It appears as though the properties file is not being updated as the properties are being modified. Is there anyway to reload/refresh the file?
Objective is to be able to write to the properties file and read from it right away.

[Brian Heisler]

Try this...
setstate is the name of the target...
propertyfile is the name of the task inside the aforementioned target...
---start buildfile (build.xml) here----
<!-- ======================================================= -->
<!-- create a properties file for the build machine -->
<!-- ======================================================= -->
<target name="setstate" description="create prop file with environment variables on the build machine - to be accessed right away!">

<propertyfile file="homedirectory/Build.properties"
comment="Build Information">
<entry key="build.date"
type="date"
pattern="EEEE MMM dd, yyyy"
value="now"/>
<entry key="build.time"
type="date"
pattern="kk:mm:ss"
value="now"/>
<entry key="build.timestamp"
type="date"
pattern="MM-dd-yyyy' at 'HH:mm:ss"
value="now"/>
<entry key="build.host" value="${env.COMPUTERNAME}" />
<entry key="build.user.name" value="${user.name}" />
<entry key="build.os.name" value="${os.name}" />
</propertyfile>

</target>
---end buildfile (build.xml) here----
Hope this helps!