Ant ：Property
properties是由key-value组成的集合，就是Java中的Properties集合。属性的定义使用的是<property>。通常情况下，property值一经设置，就不能再改变了。Property是全局范围的properties中的一个元素，所以每个property都是全局的，是可以被任何的target、task使用。
Ant对Java程序的系统属性做了支持，可以直接的访问系统属性：
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<project default="showSystemProperties"> <target name="showSystemProperties"> <echo>${java.version}</echo> <echo>${java.vendor}</echo> <echo>${java.vendor.url}</echo> <echo>${java.home}</echo> <echo>${java.vm.specification.version}</echo> <echo>${java.vm.specification.vendor}</echo> <echo>${java.vm.specification.name}</echo> <echo>${java.vm.version}</echo> <echo>${java.vm.vendor}</echo> <echo>${java.vm.name}</echo> <echo>${java.specification.version}</echo> <echo>${java.specification.vendor}</echo> <echo>${java.specification.name}</echo> <echo>${java.class.version}</echo> <echo>${java.class.path}</echo> <echo>${java.library.path}</echo> <echo>${java.io.tmpdir}</echo> <echo>${java.compiler}</echo> <echo>${java.ext.dirs}</echo> <echo>${os.name}</echo> <echo>${os.arch}</echo> <echo>${os.version}</echo> <echo>${file.separator}</echo> <echo>${path.separator}</echo> <echo>${line.separator}</echo> <echo>${user.name}</echo> <echo>${user.home}</echo> <echo>${user.dir}</echo> </target> </project> |
basedir the absolute path of the project's basedir (as set
with the basedir attribute of <project>).
ant.file the absolute path of the buildfile.
ant.version the version of Ant
ant.project.name the name of the project that is currently executing;
it is set in the name attribute of <project>.
ant.project.default-target
the name of the currently executing project's
default target; it is set via the default
attribute of <project>.
ant.project.invoked-targets
a comma separated list of the targets that have
been specified on the command line (the IDE,
an <ant> task ...) when invoking the current
project.
This property is set properly when the first target is executed.
If you use it in the implicit target (directly
under the <project> tag) the list will be
empty if no target has been specified while it
will contain the project's default target in this
case for tasks nested into targets..
ant.java.version the JVM version Ant detected; currently it can hold
the values "1.9", "1.8",
"1.7", "1.6", "1.5",
"1.4", "1.3" and
"1.2". ant.core.lib the absolute path
of the ant.jar file.
ant.home home directory of Ant
ant.library.dir the directory that has been used to load Ant's
jars from. In most cases this is ANT_HOME/lib.
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<target name="showAntBuildInProperties"> <echo>${basedir}</echo> <echo>${ant.file}</echo> <echo>${ant.version}</echo> <echo>${ant.project.name}</echo> <echo>${ant.project.default-target}</echo> <echo>${ant.project.invoked-targets}</echo> <echo>${ant.java.version}</echo> <echo>${ant.home}</echo> <echo>${ant.library.dir}</echo> </target> |
执行结果：
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showAntBuildInProperties: [echo] D:\Ant_Test\task [echo] D:\Ant_Test\task\build.xml [echo] Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014 [echo] ${ant.project.name} [echo] showAntBuildInProperties [echo] showAntBuildInProperties [echo] 1.7 [echo] E:\Program Files\apache\ant\apache-ant-1.9.4 [echo] E:\Program Files\apache\ant\apache-ant-1.9.4\lib |
在build.xml中可以使用<property>来自定义属性。属性一经设置，将不可改变。
共有7种方式可以设置属性：
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Attribute |
Description |
Required |
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name |
属性名 |
No |
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value |
属性值 |
One of these or nested text, when using the name attribute |
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location |
Sets the property to the absolute filename of the given file. If the value of this attribute is an absolute path, it is left unchanged (with / and \ characters converted to the current platforms conventions). Otherwise it is taken as a path relative to the project's basedir and expanded. |
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refid |
Reference to an object defined elsewhere. Only yields reasonable results for references toPATH like structures or properties. |
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resource |
the name of the classpath resource containing properties settings in properties file format. |
One of these, whennot using the name attribute |
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file |
the location of the properties file to load. |
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url |
a url containing properties-format settings. |
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environment |
the prefix to use when retrieving environment variables. Thus if you specify environment="myenv" you will be able to access OS-specific environment variables via property names "myenv.PATH" or "myenv.TERM". Note that if you supply a property name with a final "." it will not be doubled; i.e. environment="myenv." will still allow access of environment variables through "myenv.PATH" and "myenv.TERM". This functionality is currently only implemented on select platforms. Feel free to send patches to increase the number of platforms on which this functionality is supported ;). even if the environment variables on your operating system are not; e.g. Windows 2000's system path variable is set to an Ant property named "env.Path" rather than "env.PATH". |
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classpath |
the classpath to use when looking up a resource. |
No |
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classpathref |
the classpath to use when looking up a resource, given as reference to a |
No |
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prefix |
Prefix to apply to properties loaded using
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No |
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prefixValues |
Whether to apply the prefix when expanding the right hand side of properties loaded using |
No (default=false) |
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relative |
If set to true the relative path to basedir is set. Since Ant 1.8.0 |
No (default=false) |
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basedir |
The basedir to calculate the relative path from. Since Ant 1.8.0 |
No (default=${basedir}) |
Property其实是一种特殊的task，它的作用就是为变量设置值，也可以理解为定义变量。但是我没有将其放在task一节中，是因为它是一种提供值的常用方式。
在Ant构建文件中，有7种方式可以设置property。
1）指定name，以及value或者location的方式
<property name=”xxx” value=”” />或者<property name=”xxx” location=”” />
如果是value，则是直接设置为字面量。如果是location，则表示该值是一个文件系统上的一个路径，可以设置为绝对路径，也可以设置为相对路径。
示例：
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<project default="main">
<target name="main" depends="showSimpleProperty" />
<property name="test.ant.property.useValue" value="hello, ant, property, value" /> <property name="test.ant.property.useLocation.absoulte" location="c:/hello"/> <property name="test.ant.property.useLocation.relative" location="."/>
<target name="showSimpleProperty"> <echo>${test.ant.property.useValue}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.useLocation.absoulte}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.useLocation.relative}</echo> </target>
</project> |
结果：
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showSimpleProperty: [echo] hello, ant, property, value [echo] c:\hello [echo] D:\Projects\ant_test\property
main:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds |
2）指定name并以及嵌入文本的方式
<property name=”xxx”>your text value</property>
3）指定name，refid
示例：
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<property id="test.ant.property.text" name="test.ant.property.text">your text value</property> <target name="showTextProperty"> <echo>${test.ant.property.text}</echo> </target>
<property name="test.ant.property.refid" refid="test.ant.property.text" /> <target name="showRefidProperty"> <echo>${test.ant.property.refid}</echo> </target> |
之前已提到过，每个task都有一个id，property是一种特殊的task，所以也可以为它设置id属性。
4）指定file属性来设置多个Property
Java中两种文件通常作为配置文件：xml、properties。Ant也对properties文件提供了支持。
属性文件可以放在本地文件系统中，可以是网络上某个主机里，也可以是在当前classpath下。针对这几种情况，ant都做了支持。分别通过指定file，url，resource来加载属性文件。
另外，在使用这三种方式(file,url,resource)时，可以指定前缀prefix的。默认情况下是没有前缀的，也就是，定义的变量仍然属性文件中的变量名。如果指定了前缀，就是定义了这样的变量（前缀.属性名）。
file属性是指定本地文件的路径，可以是绝对路径，也可以是相对路径
实例:
属性文件如下：
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test.ant.property.propertiesFile.A=hello a test.ant.property.propertiesFile.B=hello b test.ant.property.propertiesFile.C=hello c test.ant.property.propertiesFile.D=hello d test.ant.property.propertiesFile.E=hello e |
使用<property file/>设置属性：
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<property file="./build.properties" /> <target name="showFileProperty"> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.A}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.B}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.C}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.D}</echo> </target> |
结果如下：
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showFileProperty: [echo] hello a [echo] hello b [echo] hello c [echo] hello d
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5）指定URL，通过网络资源来配置
将上面的脚本做如下调整即可测试：
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<!-- <property file="./build.properties" /> --> <target name="showFileProperty"> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.A}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.B}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.C}</echo> <echo>${test.ant.property.propertiesFile.D}</echo> </target>
<property url="file:///D:/Projects/ant_test/property/build.properties" /> <target name="showUrlProperty" depends="showFileProperty" /> |
6）指定resource ，加载classpath下属性文件
如果属性文件放在指定的classpath下，可以通过使用resource来指定属性文件位置。
默认是当前路径下。也就是说在使用resource时，如果指定了classpath属性，则从指定的classpath下加载，如果没有指定，则从当前classpath下加载。
根据上面的说明，可以知道resource是和classpath（或者classpathref）结合使用的。
所以使用resource时，可以是下面三种形式：
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<property resource=”xxxx” /> <property resource=”xxxx” classpath=”yyyy” /> <property resource=”xxxx” classpathref=”yyyy” /> |
7)将环境变量作为property使用
使用方法是：<property environment=”env” />
这样就是将环境变量作为属性加载的。加载的变量名是：env.XXX。例如环境变量中的PATH、JAVA_HOME，加载后的变量名是：env.JAVA_HOME，env.PATH。
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<property environment="env"/> <target name="showEnvironmentProperty"> <echo>${env.JAVA_HOME}</echo> </target> |