Re: Java World: Build scripts with Groovy and Ant artcicle

Daniel Serodio wrote:
> There's one great Ant feature that's missing from this example: 
> build.properties files.
>
> It's a pretty common "idiom" for Ant scripts to include a 
> build.properties in the project's root (ie, same dir as build.xml) with 
> defaults and another on $HOME, which overrides these defaults.
>
> I have tons of projects and a pretty large ~/build.properties, with 
> locations for libraries, etc. How can I achieve the same functionslity 
> with Groovy builder?
>
> TIA,
> Daniel Serodio
>
> Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>
> > The article is dated from tomorrow :-) I guess it is already Monday in 
> > Europe!
> > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2004/jw-1004-groovy_p.html
> > By Filippo Diotalevi : http://www.jroller.com/page/fdiotalevi

I just started converting some build.xml files to build.groovy.  I 
immediately found that I'd like some of my build properties available as 
Groovy variables, so I now do something like this:

   props = new Properties(System.properties)
   props.load(new FileInputStream('build.properties'))

I should really close the FileInputStream, but this is a build script so 
I don't care that much.

I haven't looked, but it would nice if there was a one-shot addition to 
Properties in the GroovyJDK bits so you could do something like this:

   props = Properties.loadFile('build.properties')

and maybe some others like:

   props = Properties.loadResource(myClass,myResourceName)
   props = Properties.loadStream(inputStream)


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Patrick Mueller
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