## LoadResource

Since Apache Ant 1.7

### Description

Load a text resource into a single property. Unless an encoding is specified, the encoding of the current locale is used. Resources to load are specified as nested resource elements or single element resource collections. If the resource content is empty (maybe after processing a `filterchain`) the property is not set.

Since properties are immutable, the task will not change the value of an existing property.

### Parameters

Attribute | Description | Required
--- | --- | ---
property | property to save to | Yes
encoding | encoding to use when loading the resource | No
failonerror | Whether to halt the build on failure | No; default is true
quiet | Do not display a diagnostic message (unless Ant has been invoked with the `-verbose` or `-debug` switches) or modify the exit status to reflect an error. Setting this to true implies setting failonerror to false. | No; default is false

The LoadResource task supports nested FilterChains.

### Examples

Load the entry point of Ant's homepage into property `homepage`; an `<echo>` can print this.

    <loadresource property="homepage">
        <url url="http://ant.apache.org/index.html"/>
    </loadresource>

For more examples see the loadfile task.