Is there a way to install / use a regular expression instead of ReplaceTokens for a filter?

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Right now I use

war {
     ...
     filter(ReplaceTokens, tokens: ['buildtime': buildTime() ])
}

But what if I want to replace tags in an HTML while coping these files into the WAR? (these tags can go over several lines… - so a line-based filter is not enough)

Thx…

2

You could use ‘war.filesMatching’ together with some custom filtering code. Or perhaps there is already an Ant ‘FilterReader’ that fits your needs.

3

That filter() method takes a class that implements FilteredInputStream, which you can create your own implementation of if necessary.