Ant adding backslash before colons in database URL

[Michael Freake]

Hello,

Ant is not behaving the way I would like. It is adding a "\" before my colons in a database URL.

Expected output:

org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL=jdbc:oracle:thin:@mugwort:1527:APMD

Actual output:

org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL=jdbc\:oracle\:thin\:@mugwort\:1527\:APMD

The part in build.xml that does this:

<echo message="Updating file ${src}/quartz.properties" />
    	<propertyfile file="${src}/quartz.properties" >
    		<entry key="org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL" value="${org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL.dev}" />
    		<entry key="org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.password" value="${org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.password.dev}" />
    	</propertyfile>

From my build.properties, the value referenced above:

org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.URL.dev=jdbc:oracle:thin:@mugwort:1527:APMD

I do not want to use the <replace file="..." token="..." value="..."/> because we have several developers working on this project and the token being searched for may not be the same on each developer's machine.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mike

[Paul Clapham]

It looks like Ant thinks it's generating a properties file, since escaping colons like that is mandatory in a properties file. If you don't want a properties file, perhaps you should use some Ant task other than "propertyfile".

[Michael Freake]

Thanks Paul,

I had no idea that was the case in properties files. I just read some more about it here: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load(java.io.Reader)

I will be now be using the <replace .../> to avoid this.