Propertycopy

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.

Parameters

Attribute Description Required
name The name of the property you wish to set. Yes.
from The name of the property you wish to copy the value from. Yes.
silent Do you want to suppress the error if the "from" property does not exist, and just not set the property "name". No, default is "false".

Example

<property name="org" value="MyOrg" />
<property name="org.MyOrg.DisplayName" value="My Organiziation" />
<propertycopy name="displayName" from="org.${org}.DisplayName" />

Sets displayName to "My Organiziation".


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