uPortal Respondr gulpfile.js

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    gutil = require('gulp-util'),
    exec = require('gulp-exec'),
    less = require('gulp-less'),
    path = require('path'),
    map = require('vinyl-map'),
    cat = require('gulp-cat'),
    fs = require('fs');

var settings = {
  skin: null,
  src: './*.less',
  dest: null
};

gulp.task('init', function() {
  var populate = map(function(code, filename) {
    settings.dest = code.toString().match(/server\.home=.*/g)[0].split('=')[1];

    var xml2js = require('xml2js');
    var parser = new xml2js.Parser();
    var xml = fs.readFileSync('../../../../data/required_entities/stylesheet-descriptor/Respondr.stylesheet-descriptor.xml');

    parser.parseString(xml, function(err,result){
        settings.skin = result['stylesheet-descriptor']['stylesheet-parameter'][0]['default-value'][0];
    });
  });

  var stream = gulp.src('../../../../../../../build.properties')
    .pipe(populate);

  return stream;
});

gulp.task('less', ['init'], function () {
  gulp.src('./*.less')
    .pipe(less({
      settings: [
        './'
      ]
    }).on('error', gutil.log))
    .pipe(gulp.dest(settings.dest));
});

gulp.task('watch', ['init'] ,function() {
        gulp.watch('./**/*.less', ['less']);
});

gulp.task('default', ['init','less', 'watch']);