I see...
Have you considered using escape characters where the spaces are in the
property?
So, curious, you are using build.xml's in a jar file?
Or, do you extract from the jar file and then use those files?
Jeremy Weber wrote:
Sure does, filelist accepts a set of files delimited by a space... So
when a path has a space it doesnt behave. Have used ant-contrib
plenty of times in the past, buts that not an option. The kicker is
this isnt a normal ant environment, but actually all the build files,
etc are in a jar when they are executed. Although I havent tried
ant-contrib, this environment causes problems with similiar tasks
ant-call, ant, etc.
Scot P. Floess wrote:
OK I think I see the problem. It breaks down due to the space?
Have you looked at Ant Contrib?
They have a <for> task that may help you. It uses delimiters - in
this case you can define the delimiter as a comma. You might also
want to define in a macrodef (sorry I am a huge huge fan of
macrodefs)...
<macrodef name="copy-files" description = "Will copy files contained
in @{property} to dir @{to-dir} storing all the files in ref id @{id}">
<attribute name="property" description="Property that contains
all files to copy"/>
<attribute name="id" description="Path id reference once files
copied"/>
<attribute name="to-dir" description="Directory to copy files"/>
<attribute name="delim" default="," description = "Delimiter used
in @{property}"/>
<sequence>
<mkdir dir="@{to-dir}"/>
<for list="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" param="toCopy" delimiter="@{delim}">
<sequential>
<copy file = "@{toCopy}" toDir="@{to-dir}"/>
</sequential>
</for>
<path id="@{id}">
<fileset dir="@{to-dir}"/>
</path>
</sequence>
</macrodef>
Keep in mind, I just whipped this out ;)
To use:
<property name="jdbc.jar" value="C:\Documents and
Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc.jar,C:\Documents and
Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar"/>
<copy-files property="jdbc.jar" id = "copied.files" to-dir =
"new-directory"/>
Note that property attribute simply lists the property name...not
using the dollar notation as that is taken care of in the <for> task
via [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH,
Flossy
Jeremy Weber wrote:
Not sure that accomplishes what I need to do. The problem I wish to
solve is this:
I have a property that equates to this:
<property name="jdbc.jar" value="C:\Documents and
Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc.jar,C:\Documents and
Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar"/>
The value of this property is variable.
I then have a couple of tasks that perform the following:
<!-- use filelist to copy the files to a temp dir so we can
build a fileset -->
<copy toDir=".tmp_cp" overwrite="true" failonerror="false">
<filelist files="${jdbc.jar}" />
<flattenmapper/>
</copy>
<!-- create a referencable path object to be used in sql task -->
<path id="sql.cp">
<fileset dir=".tmp_cp"/>
</path>*
*
This all works great (although not so straight forward), until there
is a space in one of the paths in jdbc.jar property. If you have
another approach I'd be willing to try but I dont think your suggest
will work for this.
*
*
Scot P. Floess wrote:
Have you considered using a macrodef and elements?
Maybe something like:
<macrodef name="my-macro">
<attribute name="id"/>
<element name="includes"/>
<sequential>
<path id="@{id}">
<includes/>
</path>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
Then you can supply whatever you want in <includes> as long as it
adheres to <path> allowances....
Jeremy Weber wrote:
Hi All,
I have created dozen of custom tasks before, but find myself
struggling with this one. I wish to create a task that does the
following:
1. Accepts a file attribute to represent the absolute path of a
file contains comma separated absolute paths.
a. this file name will be read in, parsed and each file found
will be added to a fileset object, which in term is added to a
resources object.
2. Accepts a id property
a. this id will be the id of the resource created in step 1a.
So essentially I want...
<csvtofileset file="csv.file.name" id="some.id.name">
I am unclear on how to add the fileset i create in my code to the
project. Additionally I am unsure of how to assign this an 'id'
that I can reference elsewhere. Basically what I want to be able
to do is create a collection of files on the fly which I can
reference on the fly. Essentially in the following snippet, the
resources element would be replaced by my new task element
<project name="test" basedir="." default="test">
<!-- old -->
<resources id="fsd">
<fileset file="c:\temp\db2_test\db2jcc.jar" />
<fileset file="c:\temp\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar" />
</resources>
<!-- old -->
<!-- new -->
<csvtofileset file="csv.file.name" id="fsd">
<!-- new -->
<target name="test">
<copy toDir="c:\temp\ failonerror="true">
<resources refid="fsd"/>
</copy>
</target>
</project>
Any help at all would be appreciated.
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