Using ant through eclipse. What I'm trying to do is to add files or subdirectories to a module that already exists in the repository.
The problem is that I do not know (or shouldn't) what kind of files or subdirectories the script is going to find in the previously checked-out module.
Checksout module -> Modifies it (adding files, subsdirs) -> Add that module to the control version -> Commits
I'm making an approach like this:
<target name="checkout" >
<cvs cvsrsh="plink" cvsroot="${cvsroot}" package="${mymodule}" dest="${extract.dir}" command="checkout"/>
</target>
<target name="cvs_add" >
<cvs cvsrsh="plink" cvsroot="${cvsroot}" package="${mymodule}" dest="${extract.dir}" command="add -kb"/>
</target>
And getting this message:
[cvs] cvs add: in directory .:
[cvs] cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first
I also tried using ant-contrib's 'foreach', in order to navigate between files and subdirs, also not working.
I'd love a non-ant-contrib advice in this matter, or something not related with exec task. But I'm open minded.
I have came up with this solution:
<ac:for param="file">
<path>
<fileset dir="${mymodule}">
<!-- <include name="**/*.jar"/> -->
</fileset>
</path>
<sequential>
<local name="filename" />
<basename property="filename" file="#{file}"/>
<echo message="${filename}"/>
<cvs cvsrsh="plink" cvsroot="${cvsroot}" dest="${mymodule}" command="add -kb ${filename}"/>
</sequential>
</ac:for>
I finally surrender to ant-contrib. If anyone make a different approach, let me know.
Related
I am getting an error Could not load definitions from resource net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties. It could not be found. when I am trying to ant build on eclipse. So I downloaded ant-contrib-0.6.jar and kept it in my /lib location of apache ant, but it still does not resolve my issue. I have also tried by specifying the /lib location in my CLASSPATH system variable. How can I get around this error?
You can provide full path to the ant-contrib JAR explicitly using "classpath" element:
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${path-to-ant-contrib}/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
EDIT: Link contributed by Djacomo:
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
One important thing missing from this StackOverflow page is that setting the correct ANT_HOME env var is absolutely vital and important, without this setting ant keeps telling the same error, regardless of where you copy the ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar on your file systems. This missing thing has costed me a few hours. =)
However I receive this error without eclipse, in the pure ant.
I fixed that this way:
Add the JAR to the Ant runtime classpath entries.
Window>Preferences>Ant>Runtime>Classpath
Add the JAR to either Ant Home Entries or Global Entries.
It would appear that you haven't installed the ant contrib jar into the correct lib directory. This can be difficult to do if you have several installations of ANT.
My suggestion is to install your ANT plugins into the "$HOME/.ant/lib" directory. You could go one step further and automate the process as follows:
<project name="ant-contrib-tasks" default="all">
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/>
<target name="bootstrap">
<mkdir dir="${user.home}/.ant/lib"/>
<get dest="${user.home}/.ant/lib/ant-contrib.jar" src="http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=ant-contrib/ant-contrib/1.0b3/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar"/>
</target>
<target name="all">
<for param="file">
<fileset dir="." includes="*.txt"/>
<sequential>
<echo message="Found file #{file}"/>
</sequential>
</for>
</target>
</project>
Use the below mentioned code in your build xml:
<path id="ant.classpath">
<pathelement location="${ant.jarPath}/ant.jar" />
<pathelement location="${ant.jarPath}/ant-contrib-0.3.jar" />
</path>
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties">
<classpath refid="ant.classpath" />
</taskdef>
And in your build property file:
ant.jarPath=D:/antjars
And place ant.jar and ant-contrib-0.3.jar in directory:D:/antjars
Check you have read permissions for the ant-contrib jar file.
In our case after copying the file with another user it did not, giving the same error message.
This script works good for the first server (server1), but it doesn't work for the second pass (server2) as at that point all 'modified' files are already flagged by the first pass.
<macrodef name="copythings">
<attribute name="todir"/>
<sequential>
<scp todir="#{todir}" trust="true">
<fileset dir=".">
<modified/>
<include name="cgi-bin/Application/" />
<exclude name="**/*.log" />
</fileset>
</scp>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
<target name="deploy">
<copythings todir="server1"/>
<copythings todir="server2"/>
</target>
I'd suggest copying the files from the fileset to a temporary folder first.
And copy to the server from that directory.
copy required files to a tempory folder
run the targets and use the temporay folder as base/filset for scp
delete the temporary folder
How do you do this? Given several build files, I only want to include the ones where the target (specified from the command line) exists. Using target::exists in does not seem to work. Thanks.
<target name="*">
<property name="curr.target" value="${target::get-current-target()}"/>
<nant target="${curr.target}">
<buildfiles>
<include name="*.build" if="${target::exists(curr.target)}"/>
<!-- avoid recursive execution of current build file-->
<exclude name="${project::get-buildfile-path()}" />
</buildfiles>
</nant>
</target>
Using robaker's solution, my final build file looks like this. It does not fail anymore if the target is not found in a certain build file (unlike my previous code).
<project>
<include buildfile="A.build"/>
<include buildfile="B.build"/>
<target name="*">
<nant target="${target::get-current-target()}"/>
</target>
</project>
Why not just use the include task to include all your child build scripts instead?
i want to write a script to do the Build site of plugin Update site site.xml?
i could not find a way to do this?
i found very easy to build a plugin feature. I can automatically creat the ant file build.xml via eclipse but i could not find the same for the update site.xml
thank you all
stefania
Are you trying to build an Eclipse plugin from Ant? You want to use the Ant4Eclipse external add-on for Ant. It lets you build the run-configurations you've made in Eclipse (right click>run as>...) from your .project file. You can download it here and there is a tutorial here.
I attempted to do what you're asking at a previous job without using Ant4Eclipse, I don't remember how I got it working, but I do remember it being extremely difficult.
Edit: you can build an Eclipse update site from the command line, which can be run from Ant. There is some [possibly out of date] documentation here, but I found you a sample from an Apache projects build.xml:
<target name="build-site" depends="init">
<copy todir="target/eclipse-update-site/web" preservelastmodified="true">
<fileset dir="web"/>
</copy>
<copy todir="target/eclipse-update-site" file="index.html" preservelastmodified="true"/>
<copy todir="target/eclipse-update-site" file="site.xml" preservelastmodified="true"/>
<!-- copy all the features to the target -->
<copy todir="target/eclipse-update-site/features" preservelastmodified="true" >
<fileset dir="features"/>
</copy>
<!-- see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Update_Site_Optimization -->
<java jar="${eclipse.home}/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.jar" fork="true" failonerror="true"
maxmemory="256m">
<arg line="-application org.eclipse.update.core.siteOptimizer"/>
<arg line="-digestBuilder -digestOutputDir=target/eclipse-update-site"/>
<arg line="-siteXML=target/eclipse-update-site/site.xml"/>
</java>
</target>
I'm working on an automation project for my employer. We have a pool for each revision of our source code. When you download a revision, you need to create a directory structure with a bunch of third party includes to eventually build the project. I've automated this entire process up to the point of having my script (.bat) compile each particular runnable java application. There are many applications to this single project, and the directory listing looks something like this:
Proj Name
-variousincludesfolder1
-variousincludesfolder2
-variousincludesfolder3
-variousincludesfolder4
-runnableapplicationsandmoreincludes
-con.java
Right now, I'd like to do an automated compiling of con.java, but I don't know where to begin. People have suggested I try Ant, but any automated Ant file generation I get using Eclipse seems only enough to build con.java while an active project file exists. Is there anyway to automate this without using eclipse, to the point of having the batch file generate a .jar itself?
This is definitely a job for Ant. Don't rely on Eclipse-generated Ant files; read through the manual and write one yourself. (You'll likely find out that Ant does things you didn't think of doing in your build script, too.)
To be more specific, here is the documentation for the jar task.
You can define wildcard and pattern matches to include/exclude all sorts of files and folders in your build. Take a look at the Ant manual to see how things like filesets work with include and exclude filters.
Also, read the tutorial.
Here is a simple build file that looks to compile all java files and reference all jars. Place it in the top level directory:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-antxsl/examples/example2/ant2html.xsl"?>
<project name="Proj Name" default="build" basedir=".">
<property name="src.dir" value="${basedir}" description="base folder where the source files will be found. Typically under /src, but could be anywhere. Defaulting to root directory of the project" />
<property name="build.dir" value="build" description="Where to put build files, separate from src and resource files." />
<path id="master-classpath">
<fileset dir="${basedir}" description="looks for any jar file under the root directory">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
</fileset>
</path>
<target name="build" description="Compile all JAVA files in the project">
<javac srcdir="${src.dir}"
destdir="${build.dir}/classes"
debug="true"
deprecation="true"
verbose="false"
optimize="false"
failonerror="true">
<!--master-classpath is defined above to include any jar files in the project subdirectories(can be customized to include/exclude)-->
<classpath refid="master-classpath"/>
<!--If you want to define a pattern of files/folders to exclude from compilation...-->
<exclude name="**/realm/**"/>
</javac>
</target>
</project>