2009/9/9 <jan.mate...@rzf.fin-nrw.de>: > The enhancement of <property location/> seems to be good candidate. ... > <property location="my/file.txt" relative="true" basedir="my/dir"/> > --> ../my/file.txt
../file.txt, surely? my/dir + .. -> my, my/dir + ../my -> my/my, my/dir + ../my/file.txt -> my/my/file.txt You might also like to add a test case for <property location="dir1/file.txt" relative="true" basedir="dir2"/> --> ../dir1/file.txt which I don't think is covered by the others. Also, I notice all the test cases you mentioned have a file as the location; I assume it'll work the same way when location is a directory? In which case, there probably ought to be a test case for <property location="my/dir" relative="true" basedir="my/dir"/> probably expecting "." to be returned, though you could make a reasonable argument in favour of "" instead. Actually, that gives me a thought about the extra "../" I was seeing with your earlier FileUtils.getRelativePath suggestion - could it be that it assumes the first argument (the base for the relative path) is always a directory? That would explain why foo/1 -> foo/2 is returned as ../2 rather than just 2, it's actually doing foo/1/ -> foo/2. In which case, your use of baseFile in the scriptdef was slightly misleading, baseDir would have been a better name. Alternatively, perhaps getRelativePath ought to check File.isDirectory()/File.isFile() and adjust accordingly? Andy -- http://pseudoq.sourceforge.net/ Open source java sudoku application --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org