Tanguy, I am completely unfamiliar with this package you are calling.
But it looks like you are on a Windows machine and my guess is, the param you are handing in for the directory is being presented literally to the application - which is likely attempting to escape the characters vs utilizing them as directory separators. You may want to try this to see if it gets you passed your IllegalArgumentException: simply use ${file.separator} vs the forward slash. Something like this: <project name="product-registration-TT-portlet" basedir="." default="deploy"> <import file="../build-common-portlet.xml" /> <target name="build-lang"> <antcall target="build-lang-cmd"> <param name="lang.dir" value="docroot${file.separator}WEB-INF${file.separator}src${file.separator}content" /> <param name="lang.file" value="Language" /> <param name="lang.translate" value="true" /> </antcall> target> </project> Or if you don't like that you can store as a property: <project name="product-registration-TT-portlet" basedir="." default="deploy"> <import file="../build-common-portlet.xml" /> <target name="build-lang"> <property name="DIR" value="docroot${file.separator}WEB-INF${file.separator}src${file.separator}content"/> <antcall target="build-lang-cmd"> <param name="lang.dir" value=${DIR}" /> <param name="lang.file" value="Language" /> <param name="lang.translate" value="true" /> </antcall> target> </project> I'm not sure it will fix your problem - but its a start. I did a preliminary google and found the code here: http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.liferay.portal/portal-impl/6.0.5/com/liferay/portal/tools/LangBuilder.java Again - I don't know this code base whatsoever, but what's the download site for this? Be easier to help if I can test against the library. ---- Tanguy Thomas <tanguy.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am relatively new to Ant using, so may I may miss something obvious but I > tried to follow guidelines and search documentation without success. > > When I add the <target name="build-lang">...</target-lang> I get an > IllegalArgumentException related to the lang.dir. Ant however does > something, it creates an English version (but not any other translation) > Language_en.properties, and says "build successful" after this exception. > In case this matters, I am using the JDK 1.8.0 (C:\Program > Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25) > > The build.xml is > > > > > > > > > > > *<project name="product-registration-TT-portlet" basedir="." > default="deploy"> <import file="../build-common-portlet.xml" /> <target > name="build-lang"> <antcall target="build-lang-cmd"> <param > name="lang.dir" value="docroot/WEB-INF/src/content" /> <param > name="lang.file" value="Language" /> <param name="lang.translate" > value="true" /> </antcall> </target></project>* > > And the output is : > > > *F:\COEProjects\plugins\plugins-lia\portlets\product-registration-TT-portlet>antbuild-langBuildfile: > F:\COEProjects\plugins\plugins-lia\portlets\product-registration-TT-portlet\build.xml* > *build-lang:* > > > > > > *build-lang-cmd: [java] Exception in thread "main" > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Bad argument > docroot/WEB-INF/src/content [java] at > com.liferay.portal.tools.ArgumentsUtil.parseArguments(ArgumentsUtil.java:32) > [java] at > com.liferay.portal.tools.LangBuilder.main(LangBuilder.java:57) [java] > Java Result: 1* > > *BUILD SUCCESSFULTotal time: 0 seconds* > > Of course, the folder name is correct (and it somehow finds my files as it > creates the Language_en.properties file. I also tried to put backslashes > instead of foreward slashes, I tried to add in front or after the folder > name, to escape them etc. but nothing helps. > > Please note that I searched on internet for example build.xml files, and as > I saw a parameter called "build-lang-cmd" I tried to add it. Though I have > no idea what it exactly tells, In that case strangely, I don't get the > exception, but I get lot of errors telling the client-id argument is > missing. As a result, all translation files are created, but they all > contain the original English content. > > The build file in this example would be : > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *<project name="product-registration-TT-portlet" basedir="." > default="deploy"> <import file="../build-common-portlet.xml" /> <target > name="build-lang"> <antcall target="build-lang-cmd"> <param > name="lang.dir" value="docroot/WEB-INF/src/content" /> <param > name="lang.file" value="Language" /> <param name="lang.translate" > value="true" /> </antcall> </target> <target name="build-lang-cmd"> <java > classname="com.liferay.portal.tools.LangBuilder" > classpathref="portal.classpath" fork="true" newenvironment="true"> <jvmarg > value="-Dexternal-properties=com/liferay/portal/tools/dependencies/portal-tools.properties" > /> <jvmarg value="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" /> <jvmarg > value="-Duser.country=US" /> <jvmarg value="-Duser.language=en" /> <arg > value="lang.dir=${lang.dir}" /> <arg value="lang.file=${lang.file}" > /> <arg value="lang.plugin=true" /> <arg > value="lang.translate=${lang.translate}" /> </java> <copy > file="${lang.dir}/${lang.file}.properties" > tofile="${lang.dir}/${lang.file}_en.properties" /> </target></project>* > I would get as output a lot of text such as : > > > > > > > > * [java] Correlation ID: 3c2e5a07-204a-47a3-a413-316ab512277c > [java] Timestamp: 2015-01-03 17:33:50Z [java] Translating en_es > where-purchased-required Please tell us where youpurchased the product > [java] > com.liferay.portal.kernel.microsofttranslator.MicrosoftTranslatorException: > ACS90011: The required field 'client_id' is missing. [java] Trace ID: > 2ce232f9-4ada-4901-b61e-a8a65ae7d4d6* > > I mainly would like to understand what goes wrong, I can use with or > without this extra "build-lang-cmd" but I would like to understand also > what I am doing by adding or omitting this. > > Thank you very much for your help, and happy new year to whoever reads this > :) > > -- > Tanguy Thomas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org