Just for the record, the word is "purist" - Mary, Mother of Jesus, is
reported to have be "the purest". :)
Um, Clifton, the first solution I showed you is 100%, pure, core
ANT. It does involve a file read. I have a similar issue in my
current project that necessitates writing properties to a file so
that they can be read back in as tokens. A bit of a pain, but a
macrodef and preset def handle it quite well.
scriptdef is 100% pure ant as well; do it in your scripting language
of choice and hand it back.
There are ways around this problem. They are workarounds.
I wish I had such tools to work around bugs (and I mean DEFECTS in
IDEA) - ant is really, amazingly, quite flexible.
Ken
At 09:03 2006-01-23, you wrote:
See, herein lies the problem. I'm not open to Ant-contrib. I'm what you might
call a purest. I believe that this should be possible using vanilla Ant
declarative syntax. I refuse to muddy up my build with forced procedural
logic when it doesn't need to be included. I don't have the list in a file
nor do I want it in a file. The idea is that the caller should not need to be
exposed to patternset syntax and should only need to pass in a list
(separated by commas), of configurations to deploy. The configurations are
coincident with the names of subfolders containing the projects dependencies.
The target in question needs to take the list of configurations and deploy
from all of the subfolders indicated by the list. I could make it such that
the list didn't tie directly to the folder naming scheme, rather it specified
individual target names to invoke, but in the interest of doing the simplest
thing that works I'm trying to incrementally work my way towards that point
if it is at all necessary.
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On Sunday 22 January 2006 12:50 am, Ken Gentle wrote:
> At 15:57 2006-01-21, you wrote:
> > > Here is the error: the includes attribute should contain patterns
> > > matching the file names you want copied.
> > > The patterns only match the directories.
> > > Try: includes="**/*.jar""
> >
> >Tommy,
> >
> >I know where the error is my real problem is the property friving
> >the selector
> >needs to be a comma separated list which describes the configurations to
> >deploy. I want to use that value to drive the copy. In other words
> > changing the comma separated values to resemble a patternset pattern is
> > not an option. So that leaves me with few options. I can define some
> > custom task to do a regex replace on the property value appending "/**/*"
> > sequences on each entry or I can use beanshell with a script task to do
> > the same. Neither of those options are what I consider appealing. I
> > thought I might be overlooking some simple functionality in Ant when I
> > ran into the problem but it just doesn't seem to easy to copy directories
> > specified in a CSV list without exposing patternset syntax to the creator
> > of the list.
>
> This will load the file and do the replacements:
>
> <project default="default">
> <target name="default">
> <loadfile srcfile="confs-to-deploy.csv"
> property="confs-to-deploy-pattern">
> <filterchain>
> <tokenfilter>
> <linetokenizer/>
> <replaceregex pattern="([^,]+),?"
> flags="g"
> replace="\1/** "/>
> </tokenfilter>
> </filterchain>
>
> </loadfile>
> <echo>${confs-to-deploy-pattern}</echo>
> </target>
> </project>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ant -f prop-regex.xml
> Buildfile: prop-regex.xml
>
> default:
> [echo] default/** debug/** prod/**
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
>
> Or if you already have the property and you're open to AntContrib
> tasks, you can use the PropertyRegex to do the replacements:
>
> <project default="default">
> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
> <classpath>
> <pathelement
> location="../lib/build/ant-contrib-1.0b2/lib/ant-contrib.jar"/>
> </classpath>
> </taskdef>
>
> <target name="default">
> <property name="confs-to-deploy" value="default,debug,prod"/>
> <propertyregex property="confs-to-deploy-pattern"
> input="${confs-to-deploy}"
> regexp="([^,]+),?"
> replace="\1/** " />
> <echo>${confs-to-deploy-pattern}</echo>
> </target>
> </project>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ant -f prop-regex.xml
> Buildfile: prop-regex.xml
>
> default:
> [echo] default/** debug/** prod/**
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL
> Total time: 0 seconds
>
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> >Intelligent Computer Systems - A Division of GBG
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