Gradle - Include Properties File

Question

How would I include a properties file in Gradle?

For example in Ant, I could do the following:

Answer 1

What you propably are looking for is something like:

    Properties props = new Properties()
    props.load(new FileInputStream("$project.rootDir/profile/"+"$environment"+".properties"))
    props.each { prop ->
      project.ext.set(prop.key, prop.value)
    }

Your properties should then be accessible directly through their name. I.e.:

  println "$jdbcURL"
  println project.jdbcURL

Theres probably a reason (shadowing?) why its a bad idea to do this? Not sure why its not supported out of the box or can be found somewhere else.