ant nesting macro call - ant

Question

I would like to call a macro from inside an element of another macro.
Let's suppose I have the following macro:
<macrodef name="jc">
<attribute name="name" />
<attribute name="destdir" />
<element name="fileset-list" optional="false" />
<sequential>
<jar destfile="#{destdir}${file.separator}#{name}.jar" update="false">
<fileset-list />
<manifest>
<attribute name="Manifest-Version" value="1.0" />
</manifest>
</jar>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
and another macro
<macrodef name="defaultfs" description="Defines the default fileset">
<attribute name="path" />
<sequential>
<fileset dir="${dir.build.classes}">
<include name="#{path}/**/*.class" />
</fileset>
<fileset dir="${src.ehs}">
<include name="#{path}/**/icons/**" />
<include name="#{path}/**/sounds/**" />
<include name="#{path}/**/*.gif" />
<include name="#{path}/**/*.png" />
<include name="#{path}/**/*.wav" />
<include name="#{path}/**/*.jpg" />
<include name="#{path}/**/*.properties" />
<include name="#{path}/**/*.xml" />
<include name="#{path}/**/jaxb.index" />
</fileset>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
I use these macros as follow:
<jc destdir="${dir.build.jar}" name="thejar">
<fileset-list>
<defaultfs path="org/path/inner" />
</fileset-list>
</jc>
What I get is the following error message:
jar doesn't support the nested "defaultfs" element.
What is wrong?

Answer 1

You could try making macro call within your main macro 'jc' and pass fileset path to consider as an additional attribute
<macrodef name="jc">
<attribute name="name" />
<attribute name="destdir" />
<attribute name="fileset.path.to.consider" />
<sequential>
<jar destfile="#{destdir}${file.separator}#{name}.jar" update="false">
<defaultfs path="#{fileset.path.to.consider}"/>
<manifest>
<attribute name="Manifest-Version" value="1.0" />
</manifest>
</jar>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
And then your main macro call could look like :
<jc destdir="${dir.build.jar}" name="thejar" fileset.path.to.consider="org/path/inner"/>
(not tested, you could give it a try )