Hi
Yes Jan sent me a link to an article about this - it is perfect for what I need!!
Thanks
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>On May 3, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Ben Gill wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The only reason I am even including Spring.jar - is because Spring
>>API supports loading of files using the ant style **/*.xml
>>paths... (which is really useful especially for my custom task..)
>>
>>But in theory, I should not need to include spring.jar for this
>>support - as the logic to map these paths to File resoures must be
>>in the ant core API somewhere...
>>
>>The question is, where are the classes that do this mapping
>>(between path + file(s)), are they public, and do they have the
>>interfaces I need?
>>
>>I currently call:
>>
>>org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolve
>>r p =
>> new
>>org.springframework.core.io.support.PathMatchingResourcePatternResolve
>>r();
>>
>> org.springframework.core.io.Resource[] resources =
>>p.getResources(antStylePath);
>>
>> if (resources != null) {
>>
>> info("Loaded [" + resources.length + "]
>>resources from file");
>>
>> for (int resourceNum=0; resourceNum <
>>resources.length; resourceNum++) {
>>
>> org.springframework.core.io.Resource
>>resource = resources[resourceNum];
>>
>> String fileName = resource.getFile
>>().getAbsolutePath();
>> debug("Processing file [" + fileName +
>>"]");
>>
>>Any help on this would be appreciated - it may save me having to
>>include the 1.2MB spring.jar file with the distribution..
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>I am sure there is probably a core Ant class I could use for this
>>support - the code must be in there somewhere!
>>
>>But including spring works anyhow..
>
>Have a look at Ant's Fileset and the way tasks use it with the
>DirectoryScanner (hopefully I'm not speaking of ancient API! :) -
>the facility to deal with patternsets (**/*.xml, for example) is
>built right in.
>
>Taking a look at some of Ant's tasks source code will be very
>helpful in this regard - such as the <copy> task.
>
> Erik
>
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