Re: dynamically reading a property file

2007-04-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
What exactly are you trying to achieve here? In your example, you reference the name of the property you set the environment to ${myprop.${env}.abc} Why do you have the ".abc" there? I would think your goal would be to define each "env" value as a property,eg.. abc=123, def=456, then

Re: '$$' escape syntax does not work with macros?

2007-04-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
Probably along the same lines as this bug... properties get double expanded in http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41400 Jake At 06:48 PM 4/3/2007, you wrote: >Hi Ant Users, > >It looks like '$$' escape syntax does not work with macrodefs. > >I wrote the following test: > > >

RE: How to get a list of sub-classes of a class?

2007-03-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
Why? Don't you control how you name your test cases? When the system fails, rename the test to fit the system. Jake At 01:52 AM 3/12/2007, you wrote: >Thank you Jacob, that is what we do today but this solution (?) is not >reliable. > >Zsolt > >> -Original M

Re: How to get a list of sub-classes of a class?

2007-03-11 Thread Jacob Kjome
Use consistent naming. If you have a class named "MyClass", then name its testcase MyClassTest. Now included all classes with the pattern *Test. Jake At 08:08 AM 3/11/2007, you wrote: >Hi, > >I have this list of all classes. How can I filter them to get only a list of >classes that extend

Re: Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
to >the JDK than before. > >I should have a look at your bug report on my computer in the office >which has XP. I just need to download JDK 1.3. > >Regards, > >Antoine > >On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote: > >> At 02:00 PM 2/9/2007, you wrote:

Re: Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-10 Thread Jacob Kjome
>> Basically, java.net.URL.getFile() had a bug that would return an >> incorrect String if the file is not on the same windows drive letter as >> the working directory. >> >> Ben >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-09 Thread Jacob Kjome
va.net.URL.getFile() had a bug that would return an > incorrect String if the file is not on the same windows drive letter as > the working directory. > > Ben > > -Original Message- > From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007

Re: Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-09 Thread Jacob Kjome
uild.something' is > > > >[-check.junit.exists, -check.junit, build.something] > > > >Complete build sequence is [-check.junit.exists, -check.junit, > > > >build.something, ] > > > > > > > >-check.junit.exists: > > > >[antli

Re: Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-08 Thread Jacob Kjome
set. > > > >build.something: > > > >BUILD SUCCESSFUL > >Total time: 0 seconds > >~/learning/a/junit> rm ~/.ant/lib/junit-3.8.2.jar > >~/learning/a/junit> ant > >Buildfile: build.xml > > > >-check.junit.exists: > > > >-check

Re: Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-07 Thread Jacob Kjome
sts: > >-check.junit: > [echo] JUnit is not currently available to the build environment. > [echo] Because of this, all targets that require JUnit will >be skipped. To > [echo] enable these targets, place a copy of JUnit (get >latest version at > [echo

Ant 1.7.0 can't find Junit in ${user.home}/.ant/lib

2007-02-06 Thread Jacob Kjome
Maybe this is a known issue, but it appears that Junit.jar must be in ${ant.home}/lib in order to be discovered, at least by the task using Ant-1.7.0. In Ant-1.6.5, Junit is found just fine in ${user.home}/.ant/lib, but not in Ant-1.7.0. For instance... unless="junit.exists"

Re: Probably been asked before - Trying to override old definition of

2007-02-01 Thread Jacob Kjome
Yep, use Ant-1.7.0 Jake At 06:28 PM 2/1/2007, you wrote: >When I run my ant scripts I get these highly annoying and screen >real-estate consuming messages like: > >Trying to override old definition of task shellscript >... >Trying to override old definition of datatype isgreaterthan >... > >I a

RE: My New Year Wish

2007-01-25 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting "Murray, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > These will get you one level of nesting... > > > > > > > > > > Or use a property file, with the minor addition of an extra "$" prefix. So, using your example above... $${${x}} Jake > >

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-24 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 04:54 AM 1/24/2007, you wrote: >Jacob Kjome wrote: >> >> I see your point. Even if the functionality was something you would >> support, I'm not sure there's anyone willing to put in the time to >> figure it out. But you never know. Like I said befo

Re: Trying to convert a path reference to use as a fileset for packaging jars in an ear

2007-01-24 Thread Jacob Kjome
I think Ant-1.7 supports copying paths. Otherwise, you can use Ant-Contrib's Jake Quoting Eric Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Folks: > > I use > > ... > > which is composed of various filelists and filesets referencing jars > used to build my application. I use this refid (projectSpecificLibs)

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-23 Thread Jacob Kjome
sting, the functionality could be disabled by default and only enabled explicitly, just like some of the other options of XMLProperty. Anyway, it was a good discussion and helped fetter out bugs in AntUnit. BTW, any progress on that? Jake At 05:42 AM 1/23/2007, you wrote: >Jacob Kjome wrote

RE: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-22 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 05:22 PM 1/22/2007, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:13 PM >> To: Ant Users List >> Subject: Re: intra-element attribute property >> resolution issue >> >&

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-22 Thread Jacob Kjome
I think Brian is correct. XML attributes have no defined order other than the obvious alphabetical order, which might be an implementation detail. Even so, I wonder if logic could be written to maximize resolution. If a property is found to not be resolved, it could be deferred until other attr

Re: Using antcall but not re-running dependent targets

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 09:49 PM 1/20/2007, you wrote: >Jacob Kjome: >> I added my own twist on it and made dependency >> following configurable (follows dependencies by >> default if not specified) along with optional >> "if" and "unless" attributes. Actually, all the

Re: Using antcall but not re-running dependent targets

2007-01-20 Thread Jacob Kjome
You can do it via scripting. See this thread... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10758568804&r=1&w=2 ...and specifically, this message... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=107589782422983&w=2 I added my own twist on it and made dependency following configurable (follows dependenc

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-18 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 06:19 AM 1/18/2007, you wrote: >Jacob Kjome wrote: >> >. Did I find yet another bug in Ant-related software or >> am I missing something??? > >http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41398 >and >http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4140

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
{app.n}"/> </root-tag> Jake At 09:48 AM 1/17/2007, you wrote: >Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Jacob Kjome wrote: >> > Quoting

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > No, I get the same behavior in Ant-1.6.5. I think this is a longstanding > issue. > > uh oh. those are bad. Theres more of a

Re: intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-16 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > seems to have a problem with resolution of attributes within > the > > current element. It appears to resolve the attributes in alphabetical > order. > > If an attribute refers to the

intra-element attribute property resolution issue

2007-01-15 Thread Jacob Kjome
seems to have a problem with resolution of attributes within the current element. It appears to resolve the attributes in alphabetical order. If an attribute refers to the value of another attribute in the same element, the one doing the referring must come later in the alphabet, otherwise the

Re: Problems building Ant 1.7.0 and JDK 1.6.0

2007-01-11 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 11:05 PM 1/11/2007, you wrote: >On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Bruce Bushby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The build fails saying "We cannot build the test jar unless JUnit is >> present" I've gone through the docs, specifically the "Installing >> Ant/Building Ant" but can't find an explanation for wher

Re: Problem with xml-apis.jar located both in the classpath of a taskdef and ant lib.

2007-01-08 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > carmel cohen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to write an ant task that uses xml-apis.jar. > > My problem is that i want to be able to define what version of > > xml-apis.jaris used. > > The jar is located both under %ANT_HOME%/lib (and the eclipse's

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-21 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 04:14 AM 12/21/2006, you wrote: >Jacob Kjome wrote: >> Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >We've just upgraded in SVN_HEAD, BTW. Excellent! Thanks :-) > > >> >>> Incidentally, does xerces now depend on this serializer.jar? That is

Re: xmlvalidate: check for well-formedness *only*

2006-12-21 Thread Jacob Kjome
According to the Xerces features doc [1], set validation [2] and nonvalidating.load-external-dtd [3] features to "false" to turn off DTD/Schema validation/loading. I haven't tried this myself. so YMMV. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html [2] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-20 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put > > it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this > > didn't make it? It f

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-19 Thread Jacob Kjome
Since this missed the 1.7.0 release, here's a friendly reminder to put it on the agenda for the 1.7.1 release. I'm a little curious why this didn't make it? It fixed a lot of bugs and finally included a proper official release of xml-commons-external (xml-apis-1.3.04.jar) and included much

Re: 1.7.0RC1 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.mozilla.javascript.Context.getDebuggableEngine()Lorg/mozilla/javascript/debug/DebuggableEngine

2006-12-07 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting "Jack J. Woehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:33 PM, Peter Reilly wrote: > > > You can use bsf 2.4.0 and rhino 1.5r4 but > > I definitely have Rhino 1.6.5. I *theenk* I have the 2.4.0 of > BSF but I'll download again to be sure ... that is, I shall when > the BSF download p

Re: How to run JAVAC and include .properties files?

2006-12-06 Thread Jacob Kjome
Try . 's about Java source only. Jake At 10:16 PM 12/6/2006, you wrote: > >Hi all, > >I am trying to use javac to compile java. I am using resource bundle >files (.properties), which are present in the src directory. >How do I make the javac activity copy these files to the classes >directory w

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
Here's the official Xerces statement on JDK1.2 compatibility... They're supposed to be compatible with JDK 1.2 however no one has tested that so I can't say whether they actually are. The same is true for all of the previous releases starting from Xerces 2.6.0. These were only built and tested w

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-04 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > Just wanted to note that I posted a message to the Xerces list. Here's a > > pointer to that email thread... > > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-dev&m=1164998895205

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-01 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > > > I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... > > > > > > "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xe

Re: please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-12-01 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... > > > > "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1" > > > > You may be interested to know that Xerces has n

please update the next release of Ant 1.7 to Xerces 2.9.0

2006-11-30 Thread Jacob Kjome
I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1" You may be interested to know that Xerces has now released version 2.9.0 [1] and, along with it, a proper official release of xml-commons-external-1.3.04 (otherwise known as xml-apis-1.3.

Re: pathtofileset or fileset referencing path

2006-11-15 Thread Jacob Kjome
The solution to this is usually to use a . The only problem is that one usually uses that with the task. I'm not sure how you would use it directly with the task. You could copy all the files to one directory and then use a fileset of the files in the new directory. This is actually what I d

Re: return early from a macrodef?

2006-11-10 Thread Jacob Kjome
r my desired functionality is even possible. Can you provide any insight there? Any implementation details? Thanks! [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=116292805430859&w=2 Jake >br, >Matt > >--- Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quoting John Norvell <

Re: return early from a macrodef?

2006-11-10 Thread Jacob Kjome
nerror is "ignore" or "report", see my previous post from a few days ago that never got answered... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=116292805430859&w=2 Jake > -J > > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > In a macrodef, if I check a condition and that condition is tru

return early from a macrodef?

2006-11-10 Thread Jacob Kjome
In a macrodef, if I check a condition and that condition is true, I'd like to return early from the macrodef and not run any of the rest of its contents. Is it possible using a to write a script that can force an early return from the part of the macrodef if the condition is met? This is kind

Re: Ant Task to Write to a file

2006-11-09 Thread Jacob Kjome
Or, if you want to deal with XML in a more robust way, look into XMLTask... http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/ Jake Quoting James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ${some.property} > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/echo.html > > me_zeta wrote: > > > > The val

typedef onerror not squashing error for missing classpathref

2006-11-07 Thread Jacob Kjome
I'm using Ant-1.6.5 and using a typedef to load up the Ant-Contrib tasks like so... I run this in the case that one hasn't put ant-contrib.jar in ${user.home}/.ant/lib. If the path reference "ant-contrib" is provided, it will be typedef'd using a locally provided jar. The problem is when the

Re: specifying location of an external library within build.xml

2006-11-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
Can you add your libraries to ${user.home}/.ant/lib? That's equivalent to adding jars to ${ant.home}/lib. There is another option. You can avoid all the classloading issues and simply use a native SCP executable. Do something like this...

RE: AW: dynamic targets

2006-10-25 Thread Jacob Kjome
rted isn't resolved unless it is passed in from another > build. Just use subant to pass the desired property to all the build files it > is executing on. > > Mat > > -Original Message- > From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Re: how do i group files in different directories?

2006-10-24 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 06:31 AM 10/24/2006, you wrote: >Scot P. Floess wrote: >> You can define a >> >> ... >> >> >> Your path can contain file sets, etc... >> >> Then you can simply refer to id... >> >> >> >> >> teknokrat wrote: >>> I would like to define a group of jar files and then reference this >>> group in

Re: AW: dynamic targets

2006-10-24 Thread Jacob Kjome
>> >>why don't you just import a common build file and define the >>common target there. Only when the target is not defined in >>the build file, the common target gets executed. >> >>R, >> >>Markus M. May >> Original-Nachricht &g

dynamic targets

2006-10-23 Thread Jacob Kjome
Along the lines of http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=107429941032345&w=2 Is it possible to create targets dynamically, deferring creation until such time as it is found that the project doesn't have the target already defined? My use-case is using to iterate over sub-builds cal

Re: how do i group files in different directories?

2006-10-23 Thread Jacob Kjome
Do these files at least have a common base directory, such as the structure of a Maven repository? If so, then just you can put all these files into a and then use Ant Contrib's pathrefid="war.path"/> Jake At 04:53 AM 10/23/2006, you wrote: >I would like to define a group of jar fi

Re: ant and classloading

2006-10-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/17/06, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Very interesting stuff. I will definitely use your tasks for my own > > build files. It would be very nice if your tasks were added to > > Ant-1.7

RE: ant and classloading

2006-10-16 Thread Jacob Kjome
006, you wrote: >maybe [1] can help you with diagnostics. > >rainer > >[1] http://enitsys.sourceforge.net/ant-classloadertask/ > > > >> -----Original Message- >> From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 10:24 PM >>

Re: ant and classloading

2006-10-16 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Peter Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/16/06, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm not sure this is 100% an Ant question, but it is within the context of > Ant. > > > > In my Ant task, I'm loading up a class using Class.

ant and classloading

2006-10-15 Thread Jacob Kjome
I'm not sure this is 100% an Ant question, but it is within the context of Ant. In my Ant task, I'm loading up a class using Class.forName() and pass in a classloader that I would have expected to be assigned as the classloader for the class. That doesn't seem to be the case. Here's what I'

RE: Renaming files in a fileset??

2005-03-10 Thread Jacob Kjome
ame out, there didn't exist the possibility to chain mappers. I forget now who pointed chained mappers out (sorry, using my webmail), but thanks for that. You give a little, you get a little :-) Always something new to learn! Jake > > > -Original Message- > From: Jacob

Re: Renaming files in a fileset??

2005-03-09 Thread Jacob Kjome
I did the copy (and I delted everything first to make sure that libs I removed from the fileset don't get left there for deployment). Here's exactly what I did... Jake Quoting Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not going to guarant

Re: Renaming files in a fileset??

2005-03-09 Thread Jacob Kjome
I'm not going to guarantee that this works. I worked on this a while back and commented it out because I went another route, but wanted to keep this around for reference. The Regexp might be able to be written better as well. Try it and see if it works for you. Let me know if it does.

Re: SCP support in ANT 1.5

2005-03-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
Use a native SCP client and do something like this I have a global .build.properties that I import in all build files that is stored in my user.home directory which has "scp=pscp". The "pscp" program is an SCP client is from the Putty project (yes, I'm using Windows). In any ca

Re: Fix/Workaround Needed For Ant 1.6.x and

2005-02-17 Thread Jacob Kjome
Where do you have JUnit.jar? If it isn't in ANT_HOME/lib or user.home/.ant/lib, then that's your problem right there. Otherwise, make sure the nested element contains references to the root directory of both your application and test classes. If none of this works, post one of your ClassNot

Re: How can I set last modified date in html files using ant?

2005-02-06 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 09:59 PM 2/6/2005 +, you wrote: >Thank you for your reply. I tried the suggestion. > >Jacob Kjome wrote: > >> >> This doesn't really seem like an Ant question at all. > >I thought, at face value at least, it seemed like the kind of thing Ant >could d

Re: How can I set last modified date in html files using ant?

2005-02-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
This doesn't really seem like an Ant question at all. I think you can achieve what you want by displaying the last modified date via javascript. Let the browser figure out the date. var lastmod = document.lastModified;// get string of last modified date var lastmoddate = Date.parse(lastmod

Re: Import: auto run a target in the imported file.

2005-02-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 08:50 PM 2/3/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Hi; >On an imported file, I would like to run a target upon getting imported. >Although the imported's target can be run for the file importing it, I >would like to have a target in the imported file run automatically upon >being imported. Is this possible? I

Re: Problems with Properties env (XP-SP2, ntvdm, ant 1.62)

2005-01-31 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 06:01 PM 1/31/2005 -0800, you wrote: >I get an error when I have the following line in my >build.xml: > > > >The error is a popup dialog with the message: > >C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntvdm.exe >Error while setting up environment for the >application. Choose 'Close' to terminate the >application. Are

Re: Compiling against a shared code area

2005-01-02 Thread Jacob Kjome
It's possible that the Ant-contrib CompileWithWalls task might work. I've never tried it because it is both complicated (at least from its description, I've never actually tried it) and it seems to me to cover up larger problems with source layout and package/class separation. Again, I'm not

Re: AntDoc with Ant 1.6.2 ?

2004-12-30 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 10:20 AM 12/30/2004 +0100, you wrote: >I also tried to combine our build scripts with XSLT as >explained in >http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-antxsl/index.html >but the example stylesheet doesn't work with our scripts (Ant 1.6.2, IE 6) >error : > >Entity 'nbsp'not defined. Er

Re: Newbee Question on

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 08:26 AM 12/29/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Antoine and Ivan, > >Just tried the following: > > destdir="classes" > > > > Since when do you pass an argument to a VM with the value in quotes? Remove the "'s and see if that fixes the issue. Jake >and this:

Re: Typdef/taskdef behaviour and introspection

2004-12-26 Thread Jacob Kjome
When your task performs XSLT, does it programmatically use Ant's XSLT task to perform the transformation or is it completely separate from any Ant specifics? If the former, then you are out of luck because your task would have to be at the same level as, or a parent of, Ant's main classloader.

Re: ant UI

2004-12-16 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 04:30 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Does Ant come with any user interface from where we can pass parameters >and see results on web explorer? Use an XSLT. Add something the following to your build file After that, just create (or find it on the net) the stylesheet and open the build.xm

Re: Convert PathLike stucture to fileset

2004-12-16 Thread Jacob Kjome
Ant-contrib has a task. Check it out. BTW, your libraries have to have a common root directory for this to work. Jake Quoting Thomas Hackel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi ! > > Is is possible to convert a classpath(=) to a fileset, > so that i can copy all the files (=libs) defined the path to a

Re: AW: Path definition in macro

2004-12-10 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > sure, but there are problems if you call it multiple times. > - properties are immutable and is logged > - overriding paths results in a log message > Hi Jan, I recall conversations about turning off logging for overridden paths, since it is a pretty useful design pa

Re: Escaping ant property values

2004-12-08 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property > This is not mentioned in the FAQ, but this can also be done in a properties file as follows... my.auto-deploy=$${${my.server}.auto-deploy} Maybe one of the committers can add it to th

Re: Use Saxon8 in xslt task

2004-12-08 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Robert Soesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks, > > Could anybody give me an example how to use this user_home/.ant/lib > solution. > Would I really need to remove the xslt task front ant/lib or could I > just include the external saxon jar to the classpath? > Just create the directory, d

Re: Use Saxon8 in xslt task

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Robert Soesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have my Ant pipeline running inside Eclipse. For some xslt tasks I > need to use the optional Saxon 8 XSLT 2.0 processor. > I add the path inside the xslt tasks via classpath and processor > parameter: > > E.g.: > >destdir="

Re: Properties getting unset with ?

2004-12-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 11:32 AM 12/5/2004 -0800, you wrote: >On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:50:02 -0600, Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I disagree with your statement that is almost no better than >> entity includes if you can't get the exact functionality you are looking >

Re: Properties getting unset with ?

2004-12-04 Thread Jacob Kjome
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10758568804&r=1&w=2 This one shows a quick and simple example of what you want... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=107589782422983&w=2 However, you should read the whole thread. Lots of good stuff there. Jake At 08:05 PM 12/4/2004 -0800, you wrote: > >

Re: Properties getting unset with ?

2004-12-04 Thread Jacob Kjome
You should have expected this because you are using . It creates a new Ant project which is discarded after the call returns. I think what you meant to do is... That should work as expected. Jake At 11:39 AM 12/4/2004 -0800, you wrote: >This is weird. I'm using Ant 1.6.2, and trying to

Re: Strange JSPC/Taskdef issues

2004-11-30 Thread Jacob Kjome
See the Ant task manual for info on what attributes you need to set to do this. is actually the way to go here. It if doesn't work with (properly configured), it almost certainly won't work with . Jake > >Thanks, >--Bill > > >On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:36:35 -0600, Jacob

Re: Strange JSPC/Taskdef issues

2004-11-29 Thread Jacob Kjome
Does it work if you use and (re)initialize the taskdef within the ? Jake At 09:14 AM 11/29/2004 -0800, you wrote: >All, > >I discovered recently that it's pretty much impossible to run the JSPC >task more than once. Others have had this issue before (I researched >the list a bit) and it seems li

Re: Copy

2004-11-23 Thread Jacob Kjome
Try... Jake Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hi, > I want copy all files and directories in my folder, but i dont want copy > the following directory: WEB-INF. > I try this, but copy all diretory in ${eprev.dir}. > > > > > >

RE: newbie not removing my empty directory?

2004-11-23 Thread Jacob Kjome
Are you just trying to do this?... In that case above, the ${targetdir} and all its contents will be removed if the items in the "excludes" attribute don't exist. If they do exist, then the ${targetdir} will stay along with those excludes. Jake Quoting Vadim Kazakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: Unable to create junit task with ant 1.6.2 & junit3.8.1

2004-10-29 Thread Jacob Kjome
The JUnit task is located in ANT_HOME/lib. If you want to use the JUnit task without putting junit.jar in ANT_HOME/lib or $user.home/.ant/lib, then you'll have to remove the junit task from ANT_HOME/lib and added manually to your classpath just as you are manually adding junit.jar to your classpa

Re: Need help re development

2004-10-23 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 08:47 AM 10/23/2004 -0400, you wrote: I'm trying to work through the "Writing Tasks" tutorial in the Ant Manual but I'm getting stuck fairly early on. I've got the first version of HelloWorld working fine but when I go to do the second one, the one which imports org.apache.tools.ant.Task, the

Re: , , and order sensitivity problem

2004-10-20 Thread Jacob Kjome
hanks! BTW, Peter, your last comment in said bug is: "Fixed in HEAD. (Need to sync to 1.6 branch?)" Does that mean it isn't fixed in the 1.6 branch? I'm hoping this will be fixed for the next release. Jake > > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > >I noticed an issue with , ,

, , and order sensitivity problem

2004-10-19 Thread Jacob Kjome
I noticed an issue with , , and where a property specified in an imported file will not exist in an overridden target of the importing file depending on the position of said target in the imported file relative to the position of said property in the imported file. Maybe an example would be more

RE: xmlproperty path issue

2004-10-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry for missing the point again ;-) No problem. I appreciate that you took the time to answer :-) > > XML or .properties syntax for properties *is* irrelevant. > But defining Ant paths in XML properties files is not. Debateable > This > was a

RE: xmlproperty path issue

2004-10-12 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I'm not 100% sure this is a bug, or just a known limitation of > > , but I'll give it a go and see what others think (I'm > using > > Ant-

xmlproperty path issue

2004-10-11 Thread Jacob Kjome
I'm not 100% sure this is a bug, or just a known limitation of , but I'll give it a go and see what others think (I'm using Ant-1.6.2, btw)... When I use to define a path and include a reference to a path that I override later, if that overridden path includes a pathelement using a property t

RE: How to get the return value from the

2004-10-11 Thread Jacob Kjome
Or use a rather than . There are very few reasons to still be using anymore now that exists. Jake Quoting "Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > there's an Ant-Contrib feature... I think it's [1] which has > something related... > [1] http://ant-contrib.sourceforge

Re: XML Parsing Question

2004-10-06 Thread Jacob Kjome
Or use something like XMLTask... http://www.oopsconsultancy.com/software/xmltask/index.html Jake Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This is what I have been doing to arrange my data in XML files. Its a bit > crooked way of organizing data but > it is read very easily and readily available in properti

Re: and s

2004-10-06 Thread Jacob Kjome
I've been specifying paths in an file which is loaded by the common build file and used by other build files by importing the common build file. All build files use the same build structure so the paths are always applicable to all builds. I also tend to define a path that is empty, but referenc

Re: running tasks without a target actually works?

2004-10-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
adoc. > The javadoc task would get run, then the target "javadoc" would be looked > for, and not being found, ant emits the error statement. > > Peter > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > >I was whipping up a temporary build file to run javadoc against some source > that >

running tasks without a target actually works?

2004-10-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
I was whipping up a temporary build file to run javadoc against some source that I had no API documentation for. When I wrote it up, I didn't realize that I added the stuff, but didn't actually wrap it in a target. I ran it and it actually worked, but then Ant reported [javadoc] 132 warn

checksum task fails sometimes when it shouldn't

2004-09-29 Thread Jacob Kjome
I have tried using the task for verifying apache file distributions. It seems to work well in most cases, but fails consistently in others. I spoke with Henk Penning to report the non-validating distributions. However, when he tried verifying my findings, they all succeeded for him. Howeve

Re: Target or macrodef?

2004-08-24 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting sebastian ssmoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi, > this would be great ! > > recently, i had exactly that problem (setting a "temp" property in a > ) ... i had to use as work-around :( > Well, is just totally unnecessary. Just use the value of the macrodef attributes as a property. Obv

xmlproperty - why no fileset support?

2004-08-04 Thread Jacob Kjome
xmlproperty seems to be pretty much what I need with its support of paths such as and . However, said paths seem to support nested 's, but not nested 's. Am I right about this or is there some slightly different syntax to use such as, for instance, rather than the normal . Here's an example

RE: and update timestamp even if overwrite="false"

2004-07-31 Thread Jacob Kjome
Quoting Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I have noticed that the and tasks update the file > timestamp > > even > > if overwrite="false", making it somewhat hard to determine whether it > i

RE: and update timestamp even if overwrite="false"

2004-07-31 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 10:49 PM 7/30/2004 +, you wrote: Quoting Dominique Devienne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I have noticed that the and tasks update the file > timestamp > > even > > if overwrite="false", mak

Re:

2004-07-05 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 10:49 PM 7/5/2004 -0400, you wrote: it works if I use (my own custom Condition) instead of the isset but it doesn't like the built-in conditions. Is there a namespace for the default tasks? current: or ant: or something? You need to check out the new beta of Ant-1.6.2. In 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, if

RE: Ant 1.6.0 Long Filename support

2004-01-11 Thread Jacob Kjome
At 04:18 PM 1/11/2004 +, you wrote: > You are going to have to quote all paths that contain spaces such as... > > ANT_HOME = "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\apache-ant-1.6.0" > JAVA_HOME = "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.3.1_09" That's puts me straight back to square one. Removing the quotes from a

Re: Macrodef @{x}

2003-12-03 Thread Jacob Kjome
This is offtopic from the macrodef change, but the xml-apis.jar seems to have mysteriously reverted to a much older one. Even recently it had been the one from Xerces-2.6.0. xercesImpl.jar *is* from 2.6.0, but xml-apis.jar is from back in 2002. It should be 122k and is only 106k right now.

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