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Copy property value

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.properties.CopyValue
Artifactorg.openrewrite:rewrite-properties

Copies a property value from one key to another. The existing key/value pair remains unaffected by this change. If the destination key already exists, its value will be replaced. By default, creates the destination key if it does not exist.

Single recipeApache 2.0

Usage

You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.properties.CopyValue --recipe-option "oldPropertyKey=app.source.property" --recipe-option "newPropertyKey=app.destination.property"

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite:rewrite-properties:8.88.0

Options

NameTypeDescription
oldPropertyKeyrequiredStringThe property key to copy the value from. Supports glob patterns.
e.g. app.source.property
oldFilePathStringThe file path to the properties file to copy the value from. If null then the value will be copied from any properties file it appears within.
e.g. src/main/resources/application.properties
newPropertyKeyrequiredStringThe property key to copy the value to.
e.g. app.destination.property
newFilePathStringThe file path to the properties file to copy the value to. If null then the value will be copied only into the same file it was found in.
e.g. src/main/resources/application.properties
createNewKeysBooleanWhen the destination key does _not_ already exist, create it. Default is true.
relaxedBindingBooleanWhether to match the oldPropertyKey using relaxed binding rules. Default is true. Set to false to use exact matching.

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Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats