I writing an ant build file to check all translate files in a directory.
I want the ant for script to continue checking the rest files if an checking error in any file appear.
My ant task:
<taskdef name="validate" classname="ValidateTranslateFile">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${ant-libs-dir}/TranslateFileUtilities.jar" />
<pathelement location="../web/WEB-INF/lib/commons-io-2.5.jar" />
<pathelement location="../web/WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang3-3.5.jar" />
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<for param="program">
<path>
<fileset dir="../web/WEB-INF" includes="*.txt" />
</path>
<sequential>
<validate targetFile="#{program}" checkLanguages="true" checkKeysOrder="true" />
</sequential>
</for>
</target>
the Result:
it checks the files till the first error appear, and then the BUILD FAILED.
Could any one help me with that?
The for task is not part of standard ANT. It is a 3rd party extension documented here:
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/for.html
The documentation suggests using a "keepgoing" attribute to ignore errors, this might be the answer you're looking for.
If this is a custom ANT task you are writing, perhaps you should consider refactoring the code to operate on a fileset? This would enable you to call task as follows:
<validate checkLanguages="true" checkKeysOrder="true">
<fileset dir="../web/WEB-INF" includes="*.txt" />
</validate>
Simpler and more robust.
I have an Ant build file, and I try to execute it in the command line with the following command:
$ C:\Program Files (x86)\.....>ant -f C:\Silk4J\Automation\iControlSilk4J\build.xml
But nothing happens, and the result is:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
My environment variable is correct.
What is the problem? Here is my build file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- WARNING: Eclipse auto-generated file.
Any modifications will be overwritten.
To include a user specific buildfile here, simply create one in the same
directory with the processing instruction <?eclipse.ant.import?>
as the first entry and export the buildfile again. -->
<project basedir="." default="build" name="iControlSilk4J">
<property environment="env"/>
<property name="ECLIPSE_HOME" value="../../../Program Files (x86)/Silk/SilkTest/eclipse"/>
<property name="junit.output.dir" value="junit"/>
<property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
<property name="target" value="1.6"/>
<property name="source" value="1.6"/>
<path id="Silk Test JTF 13.5.0 Library.libraryclasspath">
<pathelement location="../../../Program Files (x86)/Silk/SilkTest/ng/JTF/silktest-jtf-nodeps.jar"/>
</path>
<path id="JUnit 4.libraryclasspath">
<pathelement location="${ECLIPSE_HOME}/plugins/org.junit_4.8.2.v4_8_2_v20110321-1705/junit.jar"/>
<pathelement location="${ECLIPSE_HOME}/plugins/org.hamcrest.core_1.1.0.v20090501071000.jar"/>
</path>
<path id="iControlSilk4J.classpath">
<pathelement location="bin"/>
<pathelement location="lib/apache-log4j.jar"/>
<pathelement location="lib/commons-io-2.4.jar"/>
<pathelement location="lib/commons-lang3-3.1.jar"/>
<pathelement location="lib/junit.jar"/>
<pathelement location="lib/org.hamcrest.core_1.1.0.v20090501071000.jar"/>
<pathelement location="lib/silktest-jtf-nodeps.jar"/>
<path refid="Silk Test JTF 13.5.0 Library.libraryclasspath"/>
<path refid="JUnit 4.libraryclasspath"/>
<pathelement location="../../../Users/Admin/Desktop/java-mail-1.4.4.jar"/>
<pathelement location="../../../Users/Admin/Desktop/javax.activation.jar"/>
<pathelement location="lib/joda-time-2.3.jar"/>
</path>
<target name="init">
<mkdir dir="bin"/>
<copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="bin">
<fileset dir="src">
<exclude name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="bin"/>
</target>
<target depends="clean" name="cleanall"/>
<target depends="build-subprojects,build-project" name="build"/>
<target name="build-subprojects"/>
<target depends="init" name="build-project">
<echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/>
<javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="bin" source="${source}" target="${target}">
<src path="src"/>
<classpath refid="iControlSilk4J.classpath"/>
</javac>
</target>
<target description="Build all projects which reference this project. Useful to propagate changes." name="build-refprojects"/>
<target description="copy Eclipse compiler jars to ant lib directory" name="init-eclipse-compiler">
<copy todir="${ant.library.dir}">
<fileset dir="${ECLIPSE_HOME}/plugins" includes="org.eclipse.jdt.core_*.jar"/>
</copy>
<unzip dest="${ant.library.dir}">
<patternset includes="jdtCompilerAdapter.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${ECLIPSE_HOME}/plugins" includes="org.eclipse.jdt.core_*.jar"/>
</unzip>
</target>
<target description="compile project with Eclipse compiler" name="build-eclipse-compiler">
<property name="build.compiler" value="org.eclipse.jdt.core.JDTCompilerAdapter"/>
<antcall target="build"/>
...
Go to the Ant website and download. This way, you have a copy of Ant outside of Eclipse. I recommend to put it under the C:\ant directory. This way, it doesn't have any spaces in the directory names. In your System Control Panel, set the Environment Variable ANT_HOME to this directory, then pre-pend to the System PATHvariable, %ANT_HOME%\bin. This way, you don't have to put in the whole directory name.
Assuming you did the above, try this:
C:\> cd \Silk4J\Automation\iControlSilk4J
C:\Silk4J\Automation\iControlSilk4J> ant -d build
This will do several things:
It will eliminate the possibility that the problem is with Eclipe's version of Ant.
It is way easier to type
Since you're executing the build.xml in the directory where it exists, you don't end up with the possibility that your Ant build can't locate a particular directory.
The -d will print out a lot of output, so you might want to capture it, or set your terminal buffer to something like 99999, and run cls first to clear out the buffer. This way, you'll capture all of the output from the beginning in the terminal buffer.
Let's see how Ant should be executing. You didn't specify any targets to execute, so Ant should be taking the default build target. Here it is:
<target depends="build-subprojects,build-project" name="build"/>
The build target does nothing itself. However, it depends upon two other targets, so these will be called first:
The first target is build-subprojects:
<target name="build-subprojects"/>
This does nothing at all. It doesn't even have a dependency.
The next target specified is build-project does have code:
<target depends="init" name="build-project">
This target does contain tasks, and some dependent targets. Before build-project executes, it will first run the init target:
<target name="init">
<mkdir dir="bin"/>
<copy includeemptydirs="false" todir="bin">
<fileset dir="src">
<exclude name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
This target creates a directory called bin, then copies all files under the src tree with the suffix *.java over to the bin directory. The includeemptydirs mean that directories without non-java code will not be created.
Ant uses a scheme to do minimal work. For example, if the bin directory is created, the <mkdir/> task is not executed. Also, if a file was previously copied, or there are no non-Java files in your src directory tree, the <copy/> task won't run. However, the init target will still be executed.
Next, we go back to our previous build-project target:
<target depends="init" name="build-project">
<echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/>
<javac debug="true" debuglevel="${debuglevel}" destdir="bin" source="${source}" target="${target}">
<src path="src"/>
<classpath refid="iControlSilk4J.classpath"/>
</javac>
</target>
Look at this line:
<echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/>
That should have always executed. Did your output print:
[echo] iControlSilk4J: C:\Silk4J\Automation\iControlSilk4J\build.xml
Maybe you didn't realize that was from your build.
After that, it runs the <javac/> task. That is, if there's any files to actually compile. Again, Ant tries to avoid work it doesn't have to do. If all of the *.java files have previously been compiled, the <javac/> task won't execute.
And, that's the end of the build. Your build might not have done anything simply because there was nothing to do. You can try running the clean task, and then build:
C:\Silk4J\Automation\iControlSilk4J> ant -d clean build
However, Ant usually prints the target being executed. You should have seen this:
init:
build-subprojects:
build-projects:
[echo] iControlSilk4J: C:\Silk4J\Automation\iControlSilk4J\build.xml
build:
Build Successful
Note that the targets are all printed out in order they're executed, and the tasks are printed out as they are executed. However, if there's nothing to compile, or nothing to copy, then you won't see these tasks being executed. Does this look like your output? If so, it could be there's nothing to do.
If the bin directory already exists, <mkdir/> isn't going to execute.
If there are no non-Java files in src, or they have already been copied into bin, the <copy/> task won't execute.
If there are no Java file in your src directory, or they have already been compiled, the <java/> task won't run.
If you look at the output from the -d debug, you'll see Ant looking at a task, then explaining why a particular task wasn't executed. Plus, the debug option will explain how Ant decides what tasks to execute.
See if that helps.
Try running all targets individually to check that all are running correct
run ant target name to run a target individually
e.g. ant build-project
Also the default target you specified is
project basedir="." default="build" name="iControlSilk4J"
This will only execute build-subprojects,build-project and init
is it still actual?
As I can see you wrote <target depends="build-subprojects,build-project" name="build"/>, then you wrote <target name="build-subprojects"/> (it does nothing). Could it be a reason?
Does this <echo message="${ant.project.name}: ${ant.file}"/> print appropriate message? If no then target is not running.
Take a look at the next link http://www.sqaforums.com/showflat.php?Number=623277
I'm working on something similar to the question here: ANT script to compile all (css) LESS files in a dir and subdirs with RHINO
However, I'm having a hard time customizing this to one particular requirement:
If any .less files in dir.less change: Run LESS on just one file (as it imports the other less files, making a single, combined output).
This is the state of my current build.xml:
<target name="less" description="Compile LESS files">
<echo message="Checking for LESS file changes..."/>
<apply dir="${dir.less}" executable="${tool.less}" parallel="false" failonerror="true">
<fileset dir="${dir.less}" includes="*.less" />
<srcfile/>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.less" to="${dir.css}/*.css"/>
<targetfile/>
<arg value="-compress" />
</apply>
</target>
This currently builds all of the .LESS files and outputs them toe the appropriate location (Which is livable). If I replace the mapper glob with:
<mapper type="glob" from="MainFileThatImportsOthers.less" to="${dir.css}/MainFileThatImportsOthers.css"/>
The fileset directive is effectively reduced to that one file, and changing the other .LESS files in that directory don't cause output from the task.
Can someone point me in the right direction so I can avoid setting this up wrong and recusing through each .LESS file every time?
I worked out a solution that works correctly, I used an upToDate task to set a property to conditionally trigger Exec for the compiler:
<target name="scanLess" description="Scan for LESS file changes">
<echo message="Checking for LESS file changes..."/>
<uptodate property="tool.less.changed" targetfile="${dir.css}/MyFile.css" >
<srcfiles dir="${dir.less}" includes="*.less" />
</uptodate>
</target>
<target name="less" depends="scanLess" unless="tool.less.changed" description="Compile LESS files" >
<echo message="LESS files changed, running lessc" />
<exec executable="${tool.less}" failonerror="true">
<arg value="${dir.less}/MyFile.less" />
<arg value="${dir.css}/MyFile.css" />
<arg value="-compress" />
</exec>
</target>
Investigate how selectors work in ANT
I have a small program that displays some database tables. The program has a class with a main() method. I have an ant script that builds and runs the program.
The ant script is able to build the program and runs its tests but not run it. When i run it I get the following error:
[java] Could not find com.my.MyProgram. Make sure you have it in your classpath
[java] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecuteJava.execute(ExecuteJava.java:138)
The issue here is that my java task target is not finding my classpath. I have printed my classpath and it has all the necessary jars and classes.
Here is part of my build.xml:
<path id="classpath">
<pathelement location="${build.src}" />
<pathelement location="${build.test}" />
<fileset dir="${lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<target name="run" depends="compile">
<java classname="MyProgram" fork="false">
<classpath refid="classpath"/>
</java>
</target>
Does anyone know why the run task cannot find my classpath?
I want to use resolvers (ssh) which are dependant on ant classpath.
Something like
<resolvers>
...
<ssh ...
...
</resolvers>
To use it I need jsch in ant classpath. Ant script should depends only on common lib (which also includes resolved jsch dependencies) - to use it on any client PC. Scenario is:
task to download lib.
Extract libs (jsch and etc.)
ivy:configure
But ivy:configure does not have any classpathref param, so it is unclear for me how to load jars I extracted.
Is it possible?
Or, probably, somehow run ant again internally with extended classpath?
Ok,
so my comment to question looked good for me but at the end it did not work.
The only way I found (working way I mean) is to to run ant script with
Download common-lib (with ) which includes all jar-libs required for optional ivy processing
Construct new classpath and run exec on same build file with required target:
<target name="call.task" if="wrapped.task.name">
<path id="ant.class.path">
<fileset dir="${tools.lib.dir}" >
<include name="*.jar" />
</fileset>
<pathelement location="${java.class.path}" />
</path>
<condition property="append.dest.dir" value="-Ddest.dir=${dest.dir}" else="">
<isset property="dest.dir"/>
</condition>
<exec executable="ant" failonerror="true">
<arg line="-f ivy-build.xml" />
<arg line='-lib "${toString:ant.class.path}"' />
<arg value="${wrapped.task.name}" />
<arg value="${append.dest.dir}" />
</exec>
</target>