> -----Original Message-----
> From: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 13 October 2010 21:05
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: Proper way to translate list of jars from properties
> file into classpath
>
> I have a property defined in my properties file that
> specifies a list of
> jar files associated with a particular framework. I'll need to
> reference all of those jars any time I reference one of them, so I put
> them in a single property.
>
> It currently looks like this:
>
> cxf-patches = ${lib}/cxf-xjc-boolean-2.3.0.jar,\
> ${lib}/cxf-xjc-bug671-2.3.0.jar,\
> ${lib}/cxf-xjc-dv-2.3.0.jar,\
> ${lib}/cxf-xjc-ts-2.3.0.jar
>
> Where I've defined "lib" in my build.xml before this file is
> referenced
> as "${basedir}/lib".
>
> At this point, I'm not certain of the elements that I need to
> get these
> jars properly referenced in a top-level path element so I can
> reference
> it as the classpath for javac. I imagine it involves using the
> "filelist" element.
>
> I tried this:
>
> <filelist id="cxfXjcPatch.jars.list" files="${cxf-patches}"/>
>
> Then:
>
> <path id="build.classpath">
> ...
> <filelist refid="cxfXjcPatch.jars.list"/>
> ...
> </path>
>
> This doesn't produce anything really useful. It produces very odd
> results in the final classpath. I'm not going to bother listing it,
> because I'm sure I'm doing something basically wrong here.
Try striping the ${lib}/ reference off the paths to the jar files and use it as
the directory for the filelist.
i.e. build.properties
cxf-patches = cxf-xjc-boolean-2.3.0.jar,\
cxf-xjc-bug671-2.3.0.jar,\
cxf-xjc-dv-2.3.0.jar,\
cxf-xjc-ts-2.3.0.jar
build.xml
<project name="test" default="dist" basedir="." >
<loadproperties srcFile="build.properties" />
<property name="lib" location="${basedir}/lib" />
<target name="dist" >
<filelist id="cxfXjcPatch.jars.list" dir="${lib}" files="${cxf-patches}" />
<path id="build.classpath">
<filelist refid="cxfXjcPatch.jars.list"/>
</path>
<echo message="${toString:build.classpath}" />
</target>
</project>
Produces the following when run for me:
[echo]
/tmp/ant/lib/cxf-xjc-boolean-2.3.0.jar:/tmp/ant/lib/cxf-xjc-bug671-2.3.0.jar:/tmp/ant/lib/cxf-xjc-dv-2.3.0.jar:/tmp/ant/lib/cxf-xjc-ts-2.3.0.jar
Perhaps it was that you were trying to use filelist without setting the
directory and placing that into the property that you were passing to it?
--
Regards,
Darragh Bailey
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