I declare the following classpath reference for my application librairies:
<path id="libraries">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar" />
</path >
I can compile the code using the classpath of the librairies:
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build.classes}" classpathref="libraries"/>
But I cannot find a way to include the fileset of librairies also in my WAR file:
<war destfile="${release.dir}/rel.war" webxml="${webinf}">
<classes dir="${build.classes}"/>
<!-- I need to copy paste the same directory declaration! -->
<lib dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar"/>
</war>
How can I replace the "lib" declaration with something that reuse the same path as in my javac task?
Declare the fileset out of the path and assign it an identifier:
<fileset id="xxx" dir="..." includes="..." />
Then reference the identifier in both declarations (lib specifies a fileset, so you don't have to use nesting):
<path id="libraries">
<fileset refid="xxx"/>
</path>
...
<lib refid="xxx"/>
Related
I want to copy a .properties file from a certain location to my WEB-INF/classes/com/infiniti folder(in a WAR file).
I have gone through this link How to get Ant to copy properties file to classes directory
using which I can copy the .properties file to WEB-INF/classes/ but not to WEB-INF/classes/com/infiniti
Code I am using is:
<war destfile="${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 ANT script and I have a lot of duplicated path to same set JAR files.
But there is so many double wording in the classpath and also in the war element.
<path id="my.classpath">
<pathelement location="folderA/subFolderA/1.0/A.jar"/>
<pathelement location="folderC/subFolderB/1.0/B.jar"/>
<pathelement location="folderF/subFolderZ/2.0/Z.jar"/>
<pathelement location="compile/subFolderX/1.0/onlyForJavac.jar"/>
</path>
....
<javac ...>
<classpath refid="my.classpath" />
</javac>
....
<war ...>
<lib file="folderA/subFolderA/1.0/A.jar"/>
<lib file="folderC/subFolderB/1.0/B.jar"/>
<lib file="folderF/subFolderZ/2.0/Z.jar"/>
<lib file="moreFolderF/subFolderZ/2.0/additionFile.jar"/>
<lib file="moreFolderF/subFolderZ/2.0/additionRuntimeFile.jar"/>
</war>
I want to summary them into ONE list which is easier to keep update.
But I am blocked as I have no idea how to share a path-like-structure with a fileset-like-structure.
Since Ant 1.8.0 there is a new resource collection - mappedresources that
can be used in place of the war task lib element.
So, the task might look like this (pretty much straight from the docs):
<war ... >
<mappedresources>
<restrict>
<path refid="my.classpath"/>
<type type="file"/>
</restrict>
<chainedmapper>
<flattenmapper/>
<globmapper from="*" to="WEB-INF/lib/*"/>
</chainedmapper>
</mappedresources>
</war>
This feature was added to resolve a long-standing feature request to make
the task flatten jars when deploying to WEB-INF/lib.
previous answer:
Although you can't easily convert a path to a fileset with vanilla Ant, you can go the other way.
So one option would be to define your jars in a fileset, and derive the path from it.
Something like this perhaps:
<fileset id="my.fileset" dir="${basedir}">
<include name="folderA/subFolderA/1.0/A.jar"/>
<include name="folderC/subFolderB/1.0/B.jar"/>
<include name="folderF/subFolderZ/2.0/Z.jar"/>
<include name="moreFolderF/subFolderZ/2.0/additionFile.jar"/>
<include name="moreFolderF/subFolderZ/2.0/additionRuntimeFile.jar"/>
</fileset>
<path id="my.classpath">
<fileset refid="my.fileset" />
</path>
<!-- javac stays the same -->
<war ...>
<lib refid="my.fileset" />
</war>
Another possibility is to use the ant-contrib pathtofileset task.
Another solution, possibly 'not the best' will be to place required jar file in WEB-INF/lib, and then set the classpath from there.
<path id="compile.classpath">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>
</path>
When its time to build the war, you need not worry about the <lib> at all, as jars are already placed in WEB-INF/lib folder.
<war destfile="${dist.dir}/${project.name}.war" webxml="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<fileset dir="${web.dir}"/>
<classes dir="${build.dir}/classes"/>
</war>
In a project we have several source paths, so we defined a reference path for them:
<path id="de.his.path.srcpath">
<pathelement path="${de.his.dir.src.qis.java}"/>
<pathelement path="${de.his.dir.src.h1.java}"/>
...
</path>
Using the reference works fine in the <javac> tag:
<src refid="de.his.path.srcpath" />
In the next step, we have to copy non-java files to the classpath folder:
<copy todir="${de.his.dir.bin.classes}" overwrite="true">
<fileset refid="de.his.path.srcpath">
<exclude name="**/*.java" />
</fileset>
</copy>
Unfortunately, this does not work because "refid" and nested elements may not be mixed.
Is there a way I can get a set of all non-java files in my source path without copying the list of source paths into individual filesets?
Here's an option. First, use the pathconvert task to make a pattern suitable for generating a fileset:
<pathconvert pathsep="/**/*,"
refid="de.his.path.srcpath"
property="my_fileset_pattern">
<filtermapper>
<replacestring from="${basedir}/" to="" />
</filtermapper>
</pathconvert>
Next make the fileset from all the files in the paths, except the java sources. Note the trailing wildcard /**/* needed as pathconvert only does the wildcards within the list, not the one needed at the end:
<fileset dir="." id="my_fileset" includes="${my_fileset_pattern}/**/*" >
<exclude name="**/*.java" />
</fileset>
Then your copy task would be:
<copy todir="${de.his.dir.bin.classes}" overwrite="true" >
<fileset refid="my_fileset" />
</copy>
For portability, instead of hard-coding the unix wildcard /**/* you might consider using something like:
<property name="wildcard" value="${file.separator}**${file.separator}*" />
This is my build target
<target name="build-war" depends="build-java">
<war destfile="${dist.dir}/${std.war.file}" webxml="${resources.dir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">
<fileset dir="${jsp.dir}" />
<lib dir="${lib.dir}"/>
<classes dir="${build.classes.dir}" />
</war>
</target>
Here for <lib> can i specify some how a fileset / pattern set ?
Basically i want to copy different
jar from different places. (Not in
one directlry)
And That fileset or patternset i want to be defined in another build file which actually imports this build file.
<lib refid="${patternset.id}"/>
You can simply define several <lib> elements:
<war destfile="myjar.jar">
<lib dir="${dir1}" includes="*.jar"/>
<lib dir="${dir2}" includes="*.jar"/>
</war>
I am trying to get ant4eclipse to work and I have used ant a bit, but not much above a simple scripting language. We have multiple source folders in our Eclipse projects so the example in the ant4eclipse documentation needs adapting:
Currently I have the following:
<target name="build">
<!-- resolve the eclipse output location -->
<getOutputpath property="classes.dir" workspace="${workspace}" projectName="${project.name}" />
<!-- init output location -->
<delete dir="${classes.dir}" />
<mkdir dir="${classes.dir}" />
<!-- resolve the eclipse source location -->
<getSourcepath pathId="source.path" project="." allowMultipleFolders='true'/>
<!-- read the eclipse classpath -->
<getEclipseClasspath pathId="build.classpath"
workspace="${workspace}" projectName="${project.name}" />
<!-- compile -->
<javac destdir="${classes.dir}" classpathref="build.classpath" verbose="false" encoding="iso-8859-1">
<src refid="source.path" />
</javac>
<!-- copy resources from src to bin -->
<copy todir="${classes.dir}" preservelastmodified="true">
<fileset refid="source.path">
<include name="**/*"/>
<!--
patternset refid="not.java.files"/>
-->
</fileset>
</copy>
</target>
The task runs successfully, but I cannot get the to work - it is supposed to copy all non-java files over too to emulate the behaviour of eclipse.
So, I have a pathId named source.path which contains multiple directories, which I somehow needs to massage into something the copy-task like. I have tried nesting which is not valid, and some other wild guesses.
How can I do this - thanks in advance.
You might consider using pathconvert to build a pattern that fileset includes can work with.
<pathconvert pathsep="/**/*," refid="source.path" property="my_fileset_pattern">
<filtermapper>
<replacestring from="${basedir}/" to="" />
</filtermapper>
</pathconvert>
That will populate ${my_fileset_pattern} with a string like:
1/**/*,2/**/*,3
if source.path consisted of the three directories 1, 2, and 3 under the basedir. We're using the pathsep to insert wildcards that will expand to the full set of files later.
The property can now be used to generate a fileset of all the files. Note that an extra trailing /**/* is needed to expand out the last directory in the set. Exclusion can be applied at this point.
<fileset dir="." id="my_fileset" includes="${my_fileset_pattern}/**/*">
<exclude name="**/*.java" />
</fileset>
The copy of all the non-java files then becomes:
<copy todir="${classes.dir}" preservelastmodified="true">
<fileset refid="my_fileset" />
</copy>
That will copy the source files over retaining the source directory structure under todir. If needed, the flatten attribute of the copy task can be set to instead make all the source files copy directly to todir.
Note that the pathconvert example here is for a unix fileseystem, rather than windows. If something portable is needed, then the file.separator property should be used to build up the pattern:
<property name="wildcard" value="${file.separator}**${file.separator}*" />
<pathconvert pathsep="${wildcard}," refid="source.path" property="my_fileset">
...
You could use the foreach task from the ant-contrib library:
<target name="build">
...
<!-- copy resources from src to bin -->
<foreach target="copy.resources" param="resource.dir">
<path refid="source.path"/>
</foreach>
</target>
<target name="copy.resources">
<copy todir="${classes.dir}" preservelastmodified="true">
<fileset dir="${resource.dir}" exclude="**/*.java">
</copy>
</target>
If your source.path contains file paths as well then you could the if task (also from ant-contrib) to prevent attempting to copy files for a file path, e.g.
<target name="copy.resources">
<if>
<available file="${classes.dir}" type="dir"/>
<then>
<copy todir="${classes.dir}" preservelastmodified="true">
<fileset dir="${resource.dir}" exclude="**/*.java">
</copy>
</then>
</if>
</target>