Zip expand problem - SimpleTemplateScript61.groovy: 1: String too long

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Hi there.

Trying to make some property files for a system, based on replacing relatively few properties in a number of files for test, production, etc.

For that purpose I created a small task:

task filterProperties(type: Zip) {
    from fileTree('SystemPropertyFiles')
    archiveName "Config-${env}.zip"
    def properties= new Properties()
    file(configFile).withInputStream {
        properties.load(it);
       }
    expand(properties)
}

All worked well until a 350 KB XML file came along and Gradle failed with the error:

SimpleTemplateScript61.groovy: 1: String too long. The given string is 343682 Unicode code units long, but only a maximum of 65535 is allowed.

64 K seems like a thing of a distant past - is this issue being worked on? It’s really a great feature to filter files like this in Gradle, and I’d hate to go back to Ant for this!

Is there an easy work-around - e.g. filtering files line-by-line?

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The ‘expand’ method is based on Groovy’s ‘SimpleTemplateEngine’, which has some known limitations. For more robust filtering, use one of the ‘filter’ methods (see Gradle Build Language Reference for details).

3

This is GRADLE-3122.

4

Thank you both for the quick replies.

Regarding the “robustness” of the Ant-based filter, I really do not agree. The syntax for the templates is really lousy, and what’s even worse:

  • Unknown tokens are silently ignored!

  • No way of doing anything intelligent at the insertion!

  • Escaping ‘@’ characters?

I really hope this bug gets fixed in Groovy soon. The expand method is a great way of substituting properties in an intelligent way,