Re: Programmatically create a fileset and refer...

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Interesting...

Well if you wouldn't mind...keep me up-to-date on what you discover...

Thanks!

Flossy

Jeremy Weber wrote:
> Yeah, I have tweaked it a bit to support some stuff it didnt out of
> the box, it seems to work okay. Everything stays in the jar file but
> its executable.
>
> I think they real problem is filelist, and that it delimits by
> spaces. Probably a bug there. I am going to see if I can patch the
> filelist class to accept a delimiter.
>
> Scot P. Floess wrote:
>> I just (really quickly) looked at the link. That's pretty darn
>> cool. I hadn't heard of that project :)
>>
>> So, are you unpacking the jar file first?
>>
>> I thought Ant dealt with the Windows file system (and spaces)
>> correctly? I don't run Windows at all so this is all an assumption
>> on my part ;)
>>
>> Jeremy Weber wrote:
>>> I guess I could try convert the value of the property, but I'd
>>> rather not.
>>> Yes, all build artifacts are actually in a jar file. Its basically,
>>> a customized version of http://antinstaller.sourceforge.net/.
>>> I am still thinking that creating my own custom task would be
>>> helpful, just cant figure out how to added a fileset to the project
>>> class.
>>>
>>> Scot P. Floess wrote:
>>>> I see...
>>>>
>>>> Have you considered using escape characters where the spaces are in
>>>> the property?
>>>>
>>>> So, curious, you are using build.xml's in a jar file?
>>>>
>>>> Or, do you extract from the jar file and then use those files?
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy Weber wrote:
>>>>> Sure does, filelist accepts a set of files delimited by a
>>>>> space... So when a path has a space it doesnt behave. Have used
>>>>> ant-contrib plenty of times in the past, buts that not an option.
>>>>> The kicker is this isnt a normal ant environment, but actually all
>>>>> the build files, etc are in a jar when they are executed.
>>>>> Although I havent tried ant-contrib, this environment causes
>>>>> problems with similiar tasks ant-call, ant, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Scot P. Floess wrote:
>>>>>> OK I think I see the problem. It breaks down due to the space?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Have you looked at Ant Contrib?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They have a <for> task that may help you. It uses delimiters -
>>>>>> in this case you can define the delimiter as a comma. You might
>>>>>> also want to define in a macrodef (sorry I am a huge huge fan of
>>>>>> macrodefs)...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <macrodef name="copy-files" description = "Will copy files
>>>>>> contained in @{property} to dir @{to-dir} storing all the files
>>>>>> in ref id @{id}">
>>>>>> <attribute name="property" description="Property that
>>>>>> contains all files to copy"/>
>>>>>> <attribute name="id" description="Path id reference once files
>>>>>> copied"/>
>>>>>> <attribute name="to-dir" description="Directory to copy files"/>
>>>>>> <attribute name="delim" default="," description = "Delimiter
>>>>>> used in @{property}"/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <sequence>
>>>>>> <mkdir dir="@(protected)}"/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <for list="${@(protected)"
>>>>>> delimiter="@(protected)}">
>>>>>> <sequential>
>>>>>> <copy file = "@(protected)}"/>
>>>>>> </sequential>
>>>>>> </for>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <path id="@(protected)}">
>>>>>> <fileset dir="@(protected)}"/>
>>>>>> </path>
>>>>>> </sequence>
>>>>>> </macrodef>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Keep in mind, I just whipped this out ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To use:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <property name="jdbc.jar" value="C:\Documents and
>>>>>> Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc.jar,C:\Documents and
>>>>>> Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar"/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <copy-files property="jdbc.jar" id = "copied.files" to-dir =
>>>>>> "new-directory"/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note that property attribute simply lists the property name...not
>>>>>> using the dollar notation as that is taken care of in the <for>
>>>>>> task via ${@(protected)}}
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Flossy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeremy Weber wrote:
>>>>>>> Not sure that accomplishes what I need to do. The problem I
>>>>>>> wish to solve is this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have a property that equates to this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <property name="jdbc.jar" value="C:\Documents and
>>>>>>> Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc.jar,C:\Documents and
>>>>>>> Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar"/>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The value of this property is variable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I then have a couple of tasks that perform the following:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> <copy toDir=".tmp_cp" overwrite="true" failonerror="false">
>>>>>>> <filelist files="${jdbc.jar}" />
>>>>>>> <flattenmapper/>
>>>>>>> </copy>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> <path id="sql.cp">
>>>>>>> <fileset dir=".tmp_cp"/>
>>>>>>> </path>*
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>> This all works great (although not so straight forward), until
>>>>>>> there is a space in one of the paths in jdbc.jar property. If
>>>>>>> you have another approach I'd be willing to try but I dont think
>>>>>>> your suggest will work for this.
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Scot P. Floess wrote:
>>>>>>>> Have you considered using a macrodef and elements?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Maybe something like:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> <macrodef name="my-macro">
>>>>>>>> <attribute name="id"/>
>>>>>>>> <element name="includes"/>
>>>>>>>> <sequential>
>>>>>>>> <path id="@(protected)}">
>>>>>>>> <includes/>
>>>>>>>> </path>
>>>>>>>> </sequential>
>>>>>>>> </macrodef>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Then you can supply whatever you want in <includes> as long as
>>>>>>>> it adheres to <path> allowances....
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jeremy Weber wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have created dozen of custom tasks before, but find myself
>>>>>>>>> struggling with this one. I wish to create a task that does
>>>>>>>>> the following:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 1. Accepts a file attribute to represent the absolute path of
>>>>>>>>> a file contains comma separated absolute paths.
>>>>>>>>> a. this file name will be read in, parsed and each file
>>>>>>>>> found will be added to a fileset object, which in term is
>>>>>>>>> added to a resources object.
>>>>>>>>> 2. Accepts a id property
>>>>>>>>> a. this id will be the id of the resource created in step 1a.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> So essentially I want...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <csvtofileset file="csv.file.name" id="some.id.name">
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am unclear on how to add the fileset i create in my code to
>>>>>>>>> the project. Additionally I am unsure of how to assign this
>>>>>>>>> an 'id' that I can reference elsewhere. Basically what I want
>>>>>>>>> to be able to do is create a collection of files on the fly
>>>>>>>>> which I can reference on the fly. Essentially in the
>>>>>>>>> following snippet, the resources element would be replaced by
>>>>>>>>> my new task element
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <project name="test" basedir="." default="test">
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> <resources id="fsd">
>>>>>>>>> <fileset file="c:\temp\db2_test\db2jcc.jar"
>>>>>>>>> /> <fileset
>>>>>>>>> file="c:\temp\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar" />
>>>>>>>>> </resources>
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> <csvtofileset file="csv.file.name" id="fsd">
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <target name="test">
>>>>>>>>> <copy toDir="c:\temp\ failonerror="true">
>>>>>>>>> <resources refid="fsd"/>
>>>>>>>>> </copy>
>>>>>>>>> </target>
>>>>>>>>> </project>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any help at all would be appreciated.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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Re: Programmatically create a fileset and reference

Scot P. Floess

2008-05-02