FilterSets are groups of filters. Filters can be defined as token-value
pairs
or be read in from a file. FilterSets can appear inside tasks that support this
feature or at the same level as <target> - i.e., as
children of
<project>.
In addition, FilterSets can specify
begintoken and/or
endtoken attributes to define what to match.
Filtersets are used for doing
replacements in tasks such as <copy>, etc.
| Attribute | Description | Default | Required |
| begintoken | The string marking the beginning of a token (eg.,
@date@). |
@ | No |
| endtoken | The string marking the end of a token (eg.,
@date@). |
@ | No |
| Attribute | Description | Required |
| token | The token to replace (eg., @date@) |
Yes |
| value | The value to replace it with
(eg., Thursday, April 26, 2001). |
Yes |
| Attribute | Description | Required |
| file | A properties file of name-value pairs from which to load the tokens. | Yes |
You are copying the version.txt file to the dist
directory from the build directory
but wish to replace the token @date@ with today's date.
<copy file="${build.dir}/version.txt" toFile="${dist.dir}/version.txt">
<filterset>
<filter token="date" value="${TODAY}"/>
</filterset>
</copy>
You are copying the version.txt file to the dist
directory from the build directory
but wish to replace the token %date* with today's date.
<copy file="${build.dir}/version.txt" toFile="${dist.dir}/version.txt">
<filterset begintoken="%" endtoken="*">
<filter token="date" value="${TODAY}"/>
</filterset>
</copy>
Copy all the docs but change all dates and appropriate notices as stored in a file.
<copy toDir="${dist.dir}/docs" >
<fileset dir="${build.dir}/docs">
<include name="**/*.html">
</fileset>
<filterset begintoken="%" endtoken="*">
<filtersfile file="${user.dir}/dist.properties"/>
</filterset>
</copy>
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