If you can get the list of directories into a file you could use loadfile to load the file into a property. You can then transform the property into a delimited list then use the antcontrib for to process the list.
You can use filterchain with loadfile to help make the delimited list. There is a reg ex filter that can be useful if you need to extract just part of the dir name on each line. HTH Bill -----Original Message----- From: S I [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:06 PM To: user@ant.apache.org Subject: ANT: Javac question Hi I'm currently trying to convert many archaic batch files that invoke the build manually to ant/xml to automate my job. I'll give you a synopsis of my current problem and how it's set up right now and try to articulate what I intend to accomplish. Keep in mind that I inherited these BATCH files and I did NOT write them! And that's why I'm trying to convert to Ant/Xml. I've basically had a crash course in Ant and have read so many tutorials that everything is now becoming blurry & my mind's going numb! We're in a Windows Java shop and the final product is deployed on linux servers. -----------------in JDK.bat------------------------------------- ... preceding lines omitted (environment set up blah blah) cd %1 #where %1 is an absolute path I CD into & run the compiler command [below] in that Dir/subdir! The %1 one variable is actually passed as an Arg to this file from a master file where all the path are stored in SPECIFIC ORDER and there're about 150 lines of paths fed to the compiler. e.g. project\client\api, project\client\api\session, so on... javac -g -d c:\projects\classes -classpath classpath declared here! .... -------------------------------------------------------------------- ************ here's a snippet of my xml file *********** I have more stuff in this file but I will spare you the details & get right to the point. <property name="CLASSES" value="C:\project\classes" /> <target name="compile" depends=""> <javac srcdir="${src}" # this is equivalent to the %1 out of the jdk-batch file, right? destdir="${CLASSES}" includes="mypackage/p1/CVS" classpath="${STUFF}\*.jar, ${STUFF}\*.zip, ${JDBC}\*.jar, ${JDBC}\*.zip, ${TOMCAT}\*.jar" debug="on" /> ************************************************ I've read Fileset, Dirset, FileMapper, & Classpath literature and unless I've overlooked something... I don't see anything to suit my need. Is there a utility or task which would allow me to declare or traverse a list of paths (150 lines) in a specific order and feed them to the compiler as ${src} or %1? Thank you Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
