--- Dominique Devienne <
ddevienne@...> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Shawn Castrianni
> <
Shawn.Castrianni@...> wrote:
> > So I was surprised my recursive property
> evaluation didn't work.
>
> It's not. But there's a patch for it in BugZilla,
> and you may be able
> to add it to your SVN controlled copy of Ant via an
> AntLib thanks to
> the PropertyHelper hooks available in Ant Core. They
> may require you
> to "invent" a new syntax for the nested expansion
> and also forces to
> use a property prefix, but overall it's probably a
> doable hack.
Actually, to the best of my knowledge, the patch in BZ
was made obsolete with the changes to PropertyHelper +
the props sandbox antlib, which provides a
NestedPropertyExpander. See
http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/sandbox.html#Props%20-%20additional%20Property%20Resolverfor more info.
HTH,
Matt
>
> Would like something like ${lgc:outer%inner%} for
> example. (using
> ${inner} or @{inner} it too likely to create issues
> I believe).
>
> Using <propertycopy> or a custom task of your own is
> also an option,
> probably easier ;-) --DD
>
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