So I have a bunch of Jars in a directory that look like this:
library_2.4.3.jar 2/3/2012
library_3.0.1.jar 9/1/2012
api.lib_10.3.jar 3/2/2011
api.lib_12.4.5.jar 6/9/2012
I have already written the following using Ant 1.7 to copy the jars to where I want them and strip away the version number from the file
<copy todir="${lib.dir}" overwrite="true">
<fileset dir="${plugins.dir}">
<include name="library*.jar" />
<include name="api.lib*.jar" />
</fileset>
<regexpmapper from="(.*)_(.*).jar" to="\1.jar"/>
</copy>
The problem I'm running into is that I want it to copy the newer version of the file. Right now it seems to be copying only the older files. I have looked into the <sort> and <TimestampSelector> tasks but those are not supported under the copy task.
What can I do to copy the newer versions of the file?
Do not put them under the copy task directly... Create the property and use the property in the copy tag...
<timestampselector property="latest.modified">
<path>
<fileset dir="${my-directory.dir}">
<include name="file-*" />
</fileset>
</path>
</timestampselector>
<copy todir="." file="${latest.modified}">
Hope, it works.
Related
I have the following piece of code:
<jar destfile="${jar.file}">
<fileset dir="${basedir}/resources"/>
<include name="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml"/>
<include name="META-INF/persistence-prod.xml"/>
</fileset>
[...]
</jar>
The problem is that persistence-prod.xm1 should be persistence.xml when placed in the jar.
I know I could create a working directory and layout my whole jar there, and then jar that up. I know I can copy that one file elsewhere and rename it while copying. If I had a whole bunch of files named *-prod.xml to be renamed *.xml, I can use a file mapper inside the copy task. However, I want to be able to rename the file right in the <jar> task. I tried adding <globmapper> to the jar task, but I got the error message: jar doesn't support the nested "globmapper" element.
Any idea how this rename can take place while jaring the file?
Of course, the minute I asked the question, I figure out the answer:
I can't put <globmapper> directly into a <jar> task, but I can include <mappedresources> into the <jar> task, and place my <globmapper> in there:
Wrong:
<jar destfile="${jar.file}">
<fileset dir="${basedir}/resources"/>
<include name="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml"/>
<include name="META-INF/persistence-prod.xml"/>
</fileset>
<globmapper from="*-prod.xml" to="*.xml"/>
[...]
</jar>
Right:
<jar destfile="${jar.file}">
<fileset dir="${basedir}/resources"/>
<include name="META-INF/ejb-jar.xml"/>
</fileset>
<mappedresources>
<fileset dir="${basedir}/resources">
<include name="META-INF/persistence-prod.xml"/>
</fileset>
<globmapper from="*-prod.xml" to="*.xml"/>
</mappedresources>
[...]
</jar>
I guess this makes sense since it limits my file mapping to just the <mappedresources> and not to all <fileset> of the <jar> task.
I want to copy a .properties file from a certain location to my WEB-INF/classes/com/infiniti folder(in a WAR file).
I have gone through this link How to get Ant to copy properties file to classes directory
using which I can copy the .properties file to WEB-INF/classes/ but not to WEB-INF/classes/com/infiniti
Code I am using is:
<war destfile="${deploy}/acc.war" webxml="${warSrc}/web/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<lib dir="${lib}">
.......
.......
.......
<classes dir="${configHome}/config/com/infiniti">
<include name="accredit.properties" />
</classes>
...
....
.......
</war>
Also I need to copy ${configHome}/resources/com/infiniti/errorcode folder to
WEB-INF/classes/com/infiniti.
Is this possible using Ant?
yes, you can use for instance ZipFileSet like this
<war destfile="${deploy}/acc.war" webxml="${warSrc}/web/WEB-INF/web.xml">
...
<zipfileset dir="${configHome}/config/com/infiniti" includes="**/*.properties" prefix="WEB-INF/classes/com/infiniti"/>
Yes, it's possible using ant. Just use the copy or sync commands to move your file:
<copy todir="${distribution}/location" file="${local.path}/data/file.txt">
</copy>
You can also copy with rules:
<copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="${combined.bin}">
<fileset dir="${buildbin}"/>
<fileset dir="${output2buildbin}"/>
<fileset dir="${output3buildbin}"/>
</copy>
Using sync:
<sync includeemptydirs="false" todir="${distres}">
<fileset dir="${buildres}">
<include name="logging/**" />
</fileset>
</sync>
Tasks are described on their doc site:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/copy.html
The same 'fileset' declarative applies to the war task:
Examples
Assume the following structure in the project's base directory:
thirdparty/libs/jdbc1.jar
thirdparty/libs/jdbc2.jar
build/main/com/myco/myapp/Servlet.class
src/metadata/myapp.xml
src/html/myapp/index.html
src/jsp/myapp/front.jsp
src/graphics/images/gifs/small/logo.gif
src/graphics/images/gifs/large/logo.gif
then the war file myapp.war created with
<war destfile="myapp.war" webxml="src/metadata/myapp.xml">
<fileset dir="src/html/myapp"/>
<fileset dir="src/jsp/myapp"/>
<lib dir="thirdparty/libs">
<exclude name="jdbc1.jar"/>
</lib>
<classes dir="build/main"/>
<zipfileset dir="src/graphics/images/gifs"
prefix="images"/>
</war>
will consist of
WEB-INF/web.xml
WEB-INF/lib/jdbc2.jar
WEB-INF/classes/com/myco/myapp/Servlet.class
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index.html
front.jsp
images/small/logo.gif
images/large/logo.gif
http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/war.html
I have a zip file which has one base folder inside it with other content inside that. I don't always know what that base folder is going to be called until I unzip it.
I'd like to move that base folder, and rename it at the same time, in ant - but can't seem to find out how. I've written code to extract the contents of the zip file to ${local.sdk.dir}/temp/ but from here i can't work out how to rename/move the extracted folder
<move todir="${local.sdk.dir}/${remote.sdk.file.name}">
<fileset dir="${local.sdk.dir}/temp/<WHAT_DO_I_PUT_HERE?>"></fileset>
</move>
also tried
<move todir="${local.sdk.dir}/${remote.sdk.file.name}" includeEmptyDirs="yes" verbose="true">
<fileset dir="${local.sdk.dir}/temp/" >
<include name="**/*" />
</fileset>
</move>
and played about with this, but closest I can get without ant throwing an error is to copy the contents of the temp dir, not the base folder within temp.
You can do all this in one step - copy from the zip file and rename the files changing the dir name as you copy. The copy task accepts a nested resource collection, so you can use a zipfileset to specify the files to copy directly from the zip file.
In order to rename the files as they are copied, you can use a mapper, which the copy task also takes as a nested element. In this case, a cutsdirmapper looks like the tool for the job.
So, if I've understood what you want to do correctly, something like this should work:
<copy todir="${local.sdk.dir}/${remote.sdk.file.name}">
<zipfileset src="${your.zip.file}" />
<cutdirsmapper dirs="1" />
</copy>
cutdirsmapper is only available in Ant 1.8.2 onward, so if you're using an earlier version, you could try a regexpmapper:
<regexpmapper from="[^/]*(.*)" to="\1" />
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<target name="relocate_sdk_folder">
<path id="sdk_folder_name">
<dirset dir="${local.sdk.dir}/temp/">
<include name="*"/>
</dirset>
</path>
<property name="sdk_folder_name" refid="sdk_folder_name" />
<echo message="renaming ${sdk_folder_name} to ${remote.sdk.file.name}" />
<move file="${sdk_folder_name}" tofile="${local.sdk.dir}/${remote.sdk.file.name}" />
</target>
I'm trying to copy a directory using the Ant copy task.
I am a newbie at Ant; my current solution is:
<copy todir="${release_dir}/lib">
<fileset dir="${libpath}" />
</copy>
I'm wondering if there is a better and shorter way to accomplish the same thing?
First of all, those are the examples from Ant documentation:
Copy a directory to another directory
<copy todir="../new/dir">
<fileset dir="src_dir"/>
</copy>
Copy a set of files to a directory
<copy todir="../dest/dir">
<fileset dir="src_dir">
<exclude name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
<copy todir="../dest/dir">
<fileset dir="src_dir" excludes="**/*.java"/>
</copy>
Copy a set of files to a directory, appending .bak to the file name on the fly
<copy todir="../backup/dir">
<fileset dir="src_dir"/>
<globmapper from="*" to="*.bak"/>
</copy>
Secondly, here is the whole documentation about copy task.
Just because the docs were not very clear to me, and because the time I spent can serve others:
The docs say that this "copies a directory (dir1) to another directory (dest)":
<copy todir="../new/dest">
<fileset dir="src/dir1"/>
</copy>
Actually, this does not mean "copy dir1 inside dest", but rather "copy the contents of dir1 inside dest".
(In general, in Ant, the "root dir" of a filesets -as well at the todir attribute- is not considered as being part of the set itself.)
To place the directory dir1 inside dest one has several alternatives (none totally satisfying to me - and I'd imagined that the new DirSet would help here, but no)
<copy todir="../new/dest/dir1">
<fileset dir="src/dir1"/>
</copy>
or
<copy todir="../new/dest">
<fileset dir="src" includes="dir1/**"/>
</copy>
See also here and here.
From http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/copy.html:
<copy todir="../new/dir">
<fileset dir="src_dir"/>
</copy>
This will do it:
<copy todir="directory/to/copy/to">
<fileset dir="directory/to/copy/from"/>
</copy>
The ant manual is your friend: Ant Manual, in this case: Copy Task
I need to copy all files in a folder except directory in that folder using Ant script.
Im using below script to do that.
<copy todir="targetsir">
<fileset dir="srcdir">
<include name="**/*.*"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
But it copies all files and directory in that folder.
how to restrict/filter directory in that folder?
thanks,
I think there is an easier way.
flatten="true" - Ignore directory structure of source directory, copy all files into a single directory, specified by the todir attribute. The default is false.
Do you mean that srcdir conatins sub-directories, and you you don't want to copy them, you just want to copy the files one level beneath srcdir?
<copy todir="targetsir">
<fileset dir="srcdir">
<include name="*"/>
<type type="file"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
That should work. The "**/*.*" in your question means "every file under every sub directory". Just using "*" will just match the files under srcdir, not subdirectories.
Edited to exclude creation of empty subdirectories.
I do not have enough reputation to comment, so I'm writing new post here. Both solutions to include name="*" or name="*.*" work fine in general, but none of them is exactly what you might expect.
The first creates empty directories that are present in the source directory, since * matches the directory name as well. *.* works mostly because a convention that files have extension and directories not, but if you name your directory my.dir, this wildcard will create an empty directory with this name as well.
To do it properly, you can leverage the <type /> selector that <fileset /> accepts:
<copy todir="targetsir">
<fileset dir="srcdir">
<include name="*"/>
<type type="file"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
Can you try
<copy todir="targetsir">
<fileset dir="srcdir">
<include name="*.*"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
** is used to match a directory structure.
<copy todir="targetsir" includeEmptyDirs="false">
<fileset dir="srcdir">
<include name="*"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
If your folder has many subdirectories and you don't want them to be copied (if you want only files) try this..
<target name="copy">
<copy todir="out" flatten="true">
<fileset dir="tn">
<filename name="**/cit.txt" />
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
The secret is to use not fileset but dirset instead.