I don't know if ant/copy can handle it, but 1. It should be very easy to check the targetDir if there is any existing files in ANT. 2. You can do your copy reversely, from your targetDir to your sourceDir, so that these existing files are untouched. Then move everything from your sourceDir to your targetDir. (I guess none of the existing files are read-only ? )
-Charlie. -----Original Message----- From: Yves Dessertine [mailto:yvesd.pub...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:56 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Make copy task fail if any destination file already exists? Okay, the problem is, these files can be overwritten (they won't be locked by the OS for example). I need to make sure that: - Ant don't overwrite them - An error is triggered, to alert the user. 2009/1/27 Chun Ji <c...@pro-unlimited.com>: > > It happens if these existing files can not be overwritten. > > -Charlie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yves Dessertine [mailto:yvesd.pub...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:38 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Make copy task fail if any destination file already exists? > > I'll explain a bit more. > > I have the following example build.xml file : > > <project name="fooproject" default="usage" basedir="."> > <target name="foo"> > <copy toDir="targetTree"> > <fileset dir="sourceTree" /> > </copy> > </target> > > <target name="usage"> > <echo>foo bar</echo> > </target> > </project> > > > > Project layout looks like this : > > testproj > +--- build.xml > +--- sourceTree > +--- bar.txt > +--- subdir > +--- boo.bmp > +--- boo1.bmp > +--- targetDir > +--- <any number of files here> > +--- subdir > +--- otherfile_only_in_target.txt > +--- <any number of files here> > +--- foo1.bmp <== this already exists: error! > > Its task is to copy any number of files from sourceDir to targetDir, > but throwing an error if any file to be copied already exists in > targetDir > > Here, I need the copy task to fail because subdir/foo1.bmp already > exists. It is possible to do such a thing w/ ant ? > > Regards, > > Yves Dessertine > > > 2009/1/26 Yves Dessertine <yvesd.pub...@gmail.com>: >> Thank you for your answer. the <available> task is interessting, but >> it isn't what I need. What I need is to copy a directory with >> subdirectories within another dir, with subdirs which might have the >> same name (to merge the contents of both), but while triggering an >> error if any file already exists in the target dir. >> >> This looks quite complicated to do with ant. >> >> >> 2009/1/26 <jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de>: >>>>It is possible with Ant to make a copy task fail if any destination >>>>file already exists? >>>> >>>>I found no clue in the docs (noticed only the "failonerror" param in >>>>copy task (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/copy.html) and in >>>>the condition for the "fail" task, but nothing relevant IMHO). >>>> >>>>I know it would be possible to check the existance of an entire >>>>folder, but this isn't suitable for my project. >>> >>> >>> This is not <copy>s job. >>> Try <available>. >>> >>> >>> Jan >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org >>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
