Nested "replaceproperties" error

[Dennis Putnam]

This is actually an old thread that I need to resurrect. However, the original thread had evolved to a point where it no longer really related to the original topic so I hope no one gets upset that I am starting a new one. Anyway, I am trying to increment a serial number for my build and on advice wound up trying to use "buildnumber". Here is my current xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project name="KCBSEvents" default="jar" basedir="."> <property name="build.properties" value="resource/build.properties"/> <property name="KCBSDir" value="src/KCBSEvents" /> <property name="excludelist" value="build.bat,makejar.xml" /> <target name="checkOS"> <condition property="isWindows"> <os family="windows" /> </condition> <condition property="isLinux"> <os family="unix" /> </condition> </target> <target name="if_windows" depends="checkOS" if="isWindows"> <property name="jarfile" value="C:\temp\KCBSEvents.jar" /> <property name="antcontrib" value="H:\html\Applets\ant-contrib" /> </target> <target name="if_linux" depends="checkOS" if="isLinux"> <property name="jarfile" value="/tmp/KCBSEvents.jar" /> <property name="antcontrib" value="/var/www/html/Applets/ant-contrib" /> </target> <target name="setclass" depends="if_linux,if_windows"> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"> <classpath> <pathelement location="${antcontrib}" /> </classpath> </taskdef> </target> <target name="incserial" depends="setclass"> <buildnumber /> <copy todir="bin"> <fileset dir="${KCBSDir}"> <include name="${build.properties}" /> </fileset> <filterchain> <replaceproperties /> </filterchain> </copy> </target> <target name="jar" description="Compile serialized jar" depends="incserial,if_windows,if_linux"> <echo message="Using destination file ${jarfile}" /> <jar destfile="${jarfile}" basedir="bin" excludes="${excludelist}"> <manifest> <attribute name="Manifest-Version" value="1.0"/> <attribute name="Created-By" value="1.6.0 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)" /> <attribute name="Main-Class" value="KCBSEvents.KCBSEvents" /> </manifest> </jar> </target> </project>
The error I get is:

newmakejar.xml:31: filterchain doesn't support the nested "replaceproperties" element.

Can someone help me get this working. Thanks.

[Peter Johnson]

I think you want <expandproperties/>, not <replaceproperties/>.

[Dennis Putnam]

Thanks. That got rid of the error and the jar file now builds. However, the serial number is not being incremented. I obviously am still missing a piece of the puzzle.

[Dennis Putnam]

I think I figured out what is happening but not how to fix it. If I understand correctly, buildnumber simply sets the variable ${build.number}. The question becomes how to get that into my resource file. Do i put that variable name directly into the file or do I still need to do some kind of substitution in the build XML?

[Dennis Putnam]

I got it. I needed to add a propertyfile task after the copy.