<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Ant-contrib Tasks: Propertycopy</title> </head> <body> <h1>Propertycopy</h1> <p>Copies the value of a named property to another property. This is useful when you need to plug in the value of another property in order to get a property name and then want to get the value of that property name.</p> <h2>Parameters</h2> <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <th>Attribute</th> <th>Description</th> <th>Required</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">property</td> <td valign="top">The name of the property to set.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">override</td> <td valign="top">If the property is already set, should we change it's value. Can be <code>true</code> or <code>false</code></td> <td align="center" valign="top">No. Defaults to <code>false</code></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">name <i>Deprecated</i></td> <td valign="top">The name of the property to set.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">No. Use the <code>property</code> attribute instead</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">from</td> <td valign="top">The name of the property you wish to copy the value from.</td> <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top">silent</td> <td valign="top">Do you want to suppress the error if the "from" property does not exist, and just not set the property "name".</td> <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is "false".</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Example</h2> <pre> <property name="org" value="MyOrg" /> <property name="org.MyOrg.DisplayName" value="My Organiziation" /> <propertycopy name="displayName" from="org.${org}.DisplayName" /> </pre> <p>Sets <code>displayName</code> to "My Organiziation".</p> <hr> <p align="center">Copyright © 2002 Ant-Contrib Project. All rights Reserved.</p> </body> </html>