How can I get ant behavior when expanding properties with gradle? -
    I have an ant project which I am converting to gradle. In the ant project, there is something like this:    & copy; Copy todir = "dest_dir" & gt; & Lt; Fileset & gt; ... & lt; / Fileset & gt; & Lt; Filterchain & gt; & Lt; Expandproperties / & gt; & Lt; / Filterchain & gt; & Lt; / Copy & gt;    Extends the filter chain properties like  $ {property} , but ignoring the dollar signs without brakes I try to replicate this behavior in gradle I am doing   If I have  expanded , then gradle spreads files as a Groovy template, which tries to expand the dollar sign with braces. / P>   Copy 'source_dir' to 'dest_dir' (project.properties)}    If I type with  filter  ant  ExpandProperties  Filter class, I get a NullPointerException. Is there an easy way to do this?      Okay, I understood that the ExpandProperties filter needs to set its project property with ant project is. In this way I have been configured to...