Can I specify a different token begin and end string for ReplaceTokens?

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Hello,

I want to use @@ (double @) as the delimiter for my tokens (ex: @@version@@). Can I specify this in ReplaceTokens? Something like this?

filter(ReplaceTokens, delimiter: ‘@@’, tokens: [copyright: ‘2009’, version: ‘2.3.1’])

Thanks, Kiran

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ReplaceTokens is from Ant: http://api.dpml.net/org/apache/ant/1.7.0/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ReplaceTokens.html

You can set ‘beginToken’ and ‘endToken’, but they are single chars for some bizarre reason.

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Oh, I see. If I want to replace tokens in files, is there an alternative to ReplaceTokens in gradle?

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The class you give to ‘filter()’ is anything that implements Java’s ‘FilteredInputStream’. If you need to use ‘@@’ as delimiters, you’re probably going to have to write your own impl.

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OK, thanks. Isn’t ReplaceTokens a type of java.io.FilterReader? I take it a sub type of FilterReader will also work?

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Yes it will. I meant ‘FilterReader’ when I said ‘FilteredInputStream’.