I have error at the first line of the following code while building with Ant builder,
<war warfile="${wartemp.dir}/${name}.war" basedir="${wartemp.dir}" webxml="${wartemp.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<include name="*"/>
<include name="scripts/**"/>
<include name="styles/**"/>
<include name="images/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/*.*"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/lib/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/views/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/classes/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/jsp/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/resources/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/spring/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/messages/**"/>
<include name="WEB-INF/layouts/**"/>
<exclude name="WEB-INF/web.xml"/>
<exclude name="**/.*"/>
</war>
The error message is:
"... /WEB-INF/build.xml:67: A zip file cannot include itself"
line 67 is the first line of the snippet posted above.
I am beginner to Spring framework. I am using Spring version 3 with springsource toolsuite. How to fix this?
thanks.
Your basedir is the same dir as where you are sending the outputted war file. This is not a problem in itself, the problem is you are including * as input which will include the output file.
To fix this you could either exclude the output file from the included files, e.g.:
<exclude name="${name}.war"/>
or you could write the war file to a different directory structure than you are reading from, e.g.:
<mkdir dir="${war.output.dir}" />
<war warfile="${war.output.dir}/${name}.war" ...>
I guess I found another cause of the "A zip file cannot include itself" problems in any "zip-alike" Ant tasks (zip, jar ...):
Remember, setting the "basedir" attribute is already the first set of files to include! You need to explicitly exclude the zip file being created at this level (with "excludes" attribute. Or, starting with Ant 1.7, with nested "excludes" element).
The "fileset" nested element is another "set" for the zip task. You should ensure that the zip "itself" will be excluded from the set also with another explicit exclude. And so on...
Related
I am using PMD source code analyzer (PMD) for my java web project through ant task. The computer is offline (not connected to the Internet). Part of ant task is as follows:
<target name="pmd">
<taskdef name="pmd" classname="net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.PMDTask">
<classpath>
<fileset dir="E:/pmd-bin-6.41.0/lib">
<include name="*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<pmd shortfilenames="true" cachelocation="pmd.cache" encoding="UTF-8">
<ruleset>web/resources/category/java/bestpractices.xml</ruleset>
<formatter type="html" tofile="report.html">
</formatter>
<fileset dir="src/java/">
<include name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</pmd>
</target>
When I run pmd target, report.html file is generated ok. The html file basically lists <fileName, lineNumber, description> triplets.
e.g.
foo.java...43...The initializer for variable "tempIDNo" is never used (overwritten on lin 67)
The description in this html file has a link as file:///E:ws/project/${pmd.website.baseurl}/pmd_rules_java_bestpractices.html#unusedassignment which does not work. E:ws/project/ is the folder where my project resides.
As a matter of fact, I have all the necessary html files (such as pmd_rules_java_bestpractices.html) unzipped in E:/pmd-doc-6.41.0 folder.
Could you please help me how to set up description link in html file to show local folder?
Thank you.
Here is the solution I have come up with:
(Using suggestion from (How can I create a link to a local file on a locally-run web page?)) Before ant pmd target define property pmd.website.baseurl
<propery name="pmd.website.baseurl" value="file:///E:/pmd-doc-6.41.0"/>
(Using usage/suggestion from (https://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/filterchain.html#expandproperties), ANT replacing strings in specified files using file with properties ) Change inside target as follows
...
<pmd ...>...
</pmd>
<copy file="report.html" tofile="report2.html">
<filterchain>
<filterreader classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ExpandProperties"/>
</filterchain>
</copy> ...
Run the ant target.
Here is an example of my beginning build file, I do not know where to put the fileset property. Right now I have a build.properties file that defines src as my directory with the current src. Ex(src= C:\workspace\project\src)
My fileset is defined like so
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="Hello World Project" default="info">
<fileset dir="${src}"
<include name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
<target name="info">
<echo>packaging the .java files...</echo>
</target>
</project>
I don't really understand where the .java files are supposed to be put. this is only for my understanding and a demo. can I include them in a random folder?? Is the fileset located in the proper placement or should it be inside the target task?
Thanks
When running your build file the following error is thrown.
$ ant -p
Buildfile: build.xml
build.xml:6: Element type "fileset" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
This not related to the placement of the fileset tag, but rather a message telling you your xml is not well formed.
Fix the XML as follows:
<fileset dir="${src}">
<include name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
Note the missing ">" character.
I have the following piece of code:
<jar destfile="${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 have the following fileset in my Apache Ant build file (BuildFilesetXML.xml):
<fileset id="XMLFileset" dir="mydir/myxml">
<include name="**/1.xml"/>
<include name="**/2.xml"/>
</fileset>
I want to create dynamically in a different build file (BuildFilesetLog.xml) (do not know the contents of "XMLFileset" in my 2nd build file) a new fileset named "LOGFileset" that will have the same contents of "XMLFileset" but with names renamed to .log. So, in runtime it will have the same structure as the following fileset:
<fileset id="LOGFileset">
<include name="**/1.log"/>
<include name="**/2.log"/>
</fileset>
Can this be done in Ant?
Thanks
No, but some tasks support mappers. For an example see the following answer:
Change directory of FileList when referencing it
I am still very new to ant and, although I know coldfusion, I don't know very much about java conventions, but I know that ant is built using java conventions. That being said I am working on an ant process to copy a project to a temp folder, change some code in the project, and then push the temp directory up to an FTP. I am trying to exclude all of my git, eclipse, and ant files from the copy so that my testing platform doesn't get cluttered. I setup a target to do the copy, but it seems that Ant not only is ignoring my excludes (which I am sure I wrote wrong), but it is only copying top level directories and files. No recursive copy. My current target is:
<target name="moveToTemp" depends="init">
<delete dir="./.ant/temp" />
<mkdir dir="./.ant/temp" />
<copy todir="./.ant/temp">
<fileset dir=".">
<include name="*" />
<exclude name=".*/**" />
<exclude name=".*" />
<exclude name="build.xml" />
<exclude name="settings.xml" />
<exclude name="WEB-INF/**" />
</fileset>
<filterset>
<filter token="set(environment='design')" value="set(environment='testing')" />
</filterset>
</copy>
</target>
I know that I am not doing my excludes right, but I don't know what I am doing wrong with them. I see double asterisks (**) used all the time in Ant but I can't figure out
By default an Ant fileset will (recursively) include all files under the specified directory, equivalent to:
<include name="**/*" />
That's the implicit include. If you supply an include, it overrides the implicit one.
Your include
<include name="*" />
Says 'match any file in the fileset directory', but that excludes traversal of subdirectories, hence your issue. Only files and the top-level directories are being copied.
See Patterns in the Ant docs for directory-based tasks: ** matches any directory tree (zero or more directories).
For your case you should be able to simply remove the 'include', so that the implicit 'include all' applies.
Suggest you also investigate the defaultexcludes task, which lets you set up this sort of thing once for the whole project.
Responding to the title of the question. You can include copy of empty directories as follows. (includeemptydirs attribute)
Example:
<copy includeemptydirs="true" todir="${directory}${file.separator}sentinel_files">
<fileset dir="${basedir}${file.separator}sentinel_files"/>
</copy>
Use the documentation provided in:
https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/copy.html