Converting Fileset to Propert in Ant 1.5 and below

Converting Fileset to Propert in Ant 1.5 and below

Converting Fileset to Propert in Ant 1.5 and below

2005-05-05 - By Stuart Harper

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Hi,

I have an Ant script which builds a fileset and then converts it to a
property like so:

<fileset id="debug.class.files" dir="${dir.classes}">
<include name="**/Debug*.class"/>
</fileset>

<property name="debug.classlist" refid="debug.class.files"/>

This works perfectly in Ant 1.6.3 but in 1.5 it doesn't. Looking at debug
trace I see something like:

"Adding reference: debug.class.files ->
org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet@(protected)

Setting project property: debug.classlist ->
org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet@(protected)"

I get the fileset reference name instead of the actual fileset. Is there any
way to make this work in older versions of Ant?

Stuart.

Apache Ant Archive

Converting Fileset to Propert in Ant 1.5 and below