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Stephan Schulze
Stephan Schulze

Reputation: 139

Phing Property in property file should contain multiple values

As far as I know it is not posssible to have an array of values in a property file. What would be the best solution to store multiple values in a property?

e.g. part of property file

# directory definitions 
# containing e.g. CSS, Javascript, ...
project.dirname_css = css
project.dirname_js = javascript

What I want is an array of properties like:

# directory definitions 
# containing e.g. CSS, Javascript, ...
project.dirname_css = [css,portal_specific]
project.dirname_js = [javascript,portal_specific]

to loop them in the build.xml
Any suggestions how to do this?
I could imagine to do divide values by ; and explode them in the build.xml. Any better suggestions?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2569

Answers (2)

Christoph Strasen
Christoph Strasen

Reputation: 2752

project.dirname_css = foo,bar,baz

And you will be able to iterate them with the phing forearch task :)

See: https://www.phing.info/guide/chunkhtml/ForeachTask.html

Upvotes: 8

Robert Wade
Robert Wade

Reputation: 5003

Coming across this a few years down the road. The provided link in Christoph's answer has changed to: https://www.phing.info/docs/guide/trunk/ForeachTask.html

Also here is my solution, using Christoph's idea. In my case, I had certain shell script files I needed to make sure where owner/group read/writeable:

// In the properties file:
project.perm775files = app/blocker.sh,app/tester.sh

// In the build xml file
<foreach list="${project.perm775files}" delimiter="," param="filepath" target="perm775" />
<target name="perm775">
    <exec command="sudo chmod 775 ${filepath}" />
</target>

Upvotes: -1

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