Duplicate property value

Question

Is it possible to duplicate the value (without having to copy and paste) of a property? Is there anyway to mark it such that I could reuse the value of foo for the property baz?

foo=bar
baz=bar

We have common pieces of information which can appear on many pages. It'd be nice to be able to create one property with the common information, and then use this value in another property to help us keep DRY.

Are the values always immutable (such as Strings, wrappers, etc)? — adarshr, Sep 08 '11 at 14:14
Have a look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/872272/java-properties-file-how-to-reference-already-defined-property-later-dir-defau — Russell, Sep 08 '11 at 14:15

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '11 at 14:25

4

Directly - no. If you pass the properties through a post-processor - yes. For example spring's <context:property-placeholder-configurer /> parses ${placeholder} syntax and replaces it with the proper value.

answered Sep 08 '11 at 14:25

Bozho

588,226
146
1,060
1,140

Exactly what I was looking for. Looks like I'll need to extend out the velocity tool which pulls these out in our UI. – Scott Sep 08 '11 at 15:19

Duplicate property value

1 Answers1

Linked