Ok, but these property names are fixed. What about
<property name="dir" value="someValue"/>
<iterate ...>
The file informations could also retrieved via <basename> and <dirname>.
Together with <antcontrib:var name="..." unset="true"/> these properties could
be eliminated during each loop.
Your task is more comfortable to use if you need the file information. But I
think it should be more generic and support resource collections. Maybe only
file resources. The use of a <sequential> container is also more performant
than reusing <ant> or <antcall>.
<iterate>
<!-- Resource Collection to iterate -->
<path ... />
<!-- Use java.io.File methods -->
<param name="parent" method="getParent()"/>
<param name="name" method="getName()"/>
<!-- Use org.apache.tools.ant.types.resources.FileResource -->
<param name="size" method="getSize()"/>
<sequential>
<echo>
The size of file '@{name}' in directory '@{parent}' is @{size}
Bytes.
</echo>
<sequential>
</iterate>
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/resources/FileResource.java
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/resources/FileProvider.java
Jan
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: Martin Holst Swende [mailto:martin.holst_swe...@msc.se]
>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008 12:45
>An: Ant Developers List
>Betreff: Re: AW: New iterating task
>
>Yes, it does.
>
>However, the foreach-task, to my understanding, cannot as
>easily be used
>in the examples I provided, since it does not provide parametrized
>file-information (basedir, path, name and extension). Otherwise, it is
>very similar.
>
>/Martin
>
>jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
>> Sound very like <antcontrib:foreach> ...
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: Martin Holst Swende [mailto:martin.holst_swe...@msc.se]
>>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008 10:16
>>> An: Ant Developers List
>>> Betreff: New iterating task
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a little utility-task that I wrote because I did not
>find any
>>> better alternative - but maybe I missed something obvious. So
>>> I thought
>>> I would contribute it, if there is any interest.
>>>
>>> Anyway, it is a kind of file iterator meant to be used on
>>> tasks that are
>>> not written to handle multiple files. Also a few other
>uses, such as
>>> manipulating and/or preserve paths and filenames in the
>process . Here
>>> is how I use it :
>>>
>>> <taskdef resource="antutilstasks" classpath="jar/antutils.jar" />
>>>
>>> <target name="testiterate">
>>> <iterate target="myecho">
>>> <fileset dir="." includes="**\*.java" />
>>> <param name="test" value="Works fine" />
>>> </iterate>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> <target name="myecho">
>>> <echo>
>>> Dir : ${dir}
>>> Path : ${path}
>>> Filename:${filename}
>>> Extension:${extension}
>>> Extra-param: ${test}
>>> </echo>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>>
>>> What it does is, for each entry in the fileset, it calls the target
>>> (myecho), and sets these properties : dir, path, filename,
>>> extension and
>>> any supplied extra parameters. It just lists files, so far.
>>>
>>> The fully qualified path is created in this manner :
>>>
>>> dir + path + filename + "." + extension
>>>
>>>
>>> One way of using it is if I have a dir-structure, say a photoalbum,
>>> where thumbnails have already been generated in the same
>>> structure. If I
>>> want to copy all thumbnails, but keep their directory
>>> structure, normal
>>> file-copy will not suffice (since it will copy all to same
>directory).
>>> But I can do this :
>>>
>>> <target name="copythumbs">
>>> <iterate target="mycopy">
>>> <fileset dir="photos" includes="**\*_thumb.jpeg" />
>>> </iterate>
>>> </target>
>>> <target name="mycopy">
>>> <copy file="${dir}${path}${filename}.${extension}"
>>> todir="thumbs/${path}"/>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> The todir will retain path, and copy files into e.g
>>> "thumbs/2008/01/21/img01_thumb.jpg" .
>>>
>>> And if I have a task that scales images, I could set it up
>like this :
>>>
>>> <target name="createthumbs">
>>> <iterate target="mythumbgenerator">
>>> <fileset dir="photos" includes="**\*.jpeg" />
>>> <param name="size" value="100x100" />
>>> </iterate>
>>> </target>
>>> <target name="mythumbgenerator">
>>> <rescale file="${dir}${path}${filename}.${extension}"
>>> outfile="thumbs/${path}${filename}_thumb.${extension}"
>size="${size}"/>
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> This way, I can iterate a task not built for it (in this case
>>> "rescale")
>>> and be pretty flexible with the input parameters to that task.
>>>
>>> So, have I re-invented the wheel?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin Holst Swende
>>>
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