I'm a little confused. The "outofdate" task returns a TRUE if the
files are "Out of Date". That is, you should do a build.
Do you mean that this task returns a FALSE instead? This task should
run the <sequential> tasks if your target files don't exist.
I recommend that you use the standard <uptodate> task against your
built EAR file. The Ant Contrib tasks (although popular) are no longer
being maintained as far as I know. There are about a half dozen errors
in the various tasks, and no one seems to be the one responsible for
maintaining the project.
The <uptodate> task can work with multiple source files, but only a
single target file. (I know you can somehow use a Mapper to map to
multiple targets, but I've never gotten it to work). The <uptodate>
task also only sets a property and doesn't allow you to specify a
bunch of tasks that you can run.
Typical setup is:
<task name="test-task">
<uptodate property="task-needs-building">
<blah, blah, blah...>
</uptodate>
</task>
<task name="main-task"
if="task-needs-building"
requires="test-task">
<blah, blah, blah...>
</task>
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Marina <ppi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I wanted to see if the behavior I see when using the ant-contrib's
> 'outofdate' task is a correct one. Basically, I'm trying to determine if
> generated EAR archive (in the exploded form) has any out of date files in
> respect to the source directories, and re-copy those files if so.
> Here is my task:
> <target name="check.ear.exploded.uptodate" >
> <outofdate property="ear.not.uptodate">
> <sourcefiles>
> <fileset dir="${build.jars}"
> includes="*.jar"/>
> <fileset dir="${build.wars}"
> includes="*.war"/>
> <fileset dir="${basedir}/rsrc/deployment"
> includes="application.xml"/>
> </sourcefiles>
> <targetfiles>
> <fileset dir="${destination}/myapp.ear" includes="**/*"/>
> </targetfiles>
> <sequential>
> <echo message="exploded myapp.ear dir is not uptodate -
> rebuilding"/>
> </sequential>
> </outofdate>
> </target>
>
> Now, if there are no files in the "${destination}/myapp.ear" directory yet
> (I'm
> building for the first time after cleanup) - the outofdate task still returns
> TRUE. Needless to say, I would prefer the opposite behavior - if no target
> files
> exist - consider them out-of-date.
> Is this the expected behavior or am I missing something?
> Also, I hope this is the right forum to post this question to; if not - please
> let me know.
>
> Thanks!
> Marina
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