How can I read a value alone from the property file. For example, how can I read the values of build.home or temp.dir from the below example.
contents of env.properties
build.home=c:\build
temp.dir=c:\temp
Regards
Sarathy
We do this in a slightly different format for Nant.
In your build file:
<include buildfile="./env.properties" failonerror="true"/>
env.properties:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project>
<property name="build.home" value="c:/build"/>
<property name="temp.dir" value="c:/temp"/>
</project>
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Here is my Script:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="createAndPopulateDB" default="deploy">
<property name="sql.connstring" value="Provider=SQLOLEDB;Server=G-PC\sqlexpress;Integrated Security=SSPI" />
<property name="createDB" value="BuildTestDatabase.sql" />
<property name="populateDB" value="CreateTables.sql"/>
<target name="deploy">
<echo message="* Connecting to ${sql.connstring}"/>
<foreach item="File" property="sql.script">
<in>
<items>
<include name="${createDB}" />
<include name="${populateDB}" />
</items>
</in>
<do>
<echo message="* Executing ${path::get-file-name(sql.script)}"/>
<sql connstring="${sql.connstring}" delimiter="go" delimstyle="Line" batch="false" source="${sql.script}"/>
</do>
</foreach>
</target>
</project>
The NAnt script is supposed to call two tsql programs. The first tsql is designed to drop a database if it is present, and if it isn't, create it. The second checks to see if a table is present, and if so, delete it. Similarly if it isn't, it populates the created database with a simple table.
My question is why does it run the populateDB script first?
I found that the best way to determine the order in which the tsql programs are run is through a depends attribute attached to separate targets. This will run them in a predetermined order and is extremely easy to follow logically if the NAnt script is a part of a repository.
As part of a CI process I am trying to create a buildlabel which consists of the content of an xml element within an xml structure. For this purpose I am using nant and xmlpeek. My problem is that I get an odd error stating:
"Nodeindex '0' is out of range"
This is only the case if the xml file I am xmlpeeking contains a namespace definition in the root node.
Removing the namespace from the xml file gives me the output I expect.
The nant target that generates the error can be boild down to:
<target name="TDSLabel">
<property name="element" value=""/>
<echo message="Getting element" />
<xmlpeek file="C:\xxx\test1.xml" xpath="//Project/PropertyGroup/ProductVersion" property="element"/>
<echo message="The found element value was: ${element}" />
</target>
and the test1.xml file looks like this:
<Project ToolsVersion="3.5" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<ProductVersion>9.0.21022</ProductVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
You already gave the right hint yourself. It's about the namespace. This should fix it:
<target name="TDSLabel">
<property name="element" value=""/>
<echo message="Getting element" />
<xmlpeek
file="C:\xxx\test1.xml"
xpath="//x:Project/x:PropertyGroup/x:ProductVersion"
property="element"
verbose="true">
<namespaces>
<namespace prefix="x" uri="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" />
</namespaces>
</xmlpeek>
<echo message="The found element value was: ${element}" />
</target>
Found a similar problem and the anwser to my problem here: XmlPoke and unique nodes. The problem was that I did not include the namespace definition within the xmlpeek element and afterwards omitted the necessary reference to the namespace in my xpath statement:
<xmlpeek file="C:\xxx\test1.xml" xpath="//x:Project/x:PropertyGroup/x:ProductVersion" property="element">
<namespaces>
<namespace prefix="x" uri="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" />
</namespaces>
</xmlpeek>
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="first" basedir="." default="build-skeleton">
<property name="dirName" value="module" />
<property name="fileName" value="config" />
<target name="build-skeleton" description="Making folders">
<mkdir dir="./${dirName}/Block" />
<touch file="./${dirName}/etc/${fileName}.xml" />
</target>
</project>
phing -f mage_module.xml -DdirName=moduleX,fileName=config
phing -f mage_module.xml -DdirName=moduleX fileName=config
Both throw an error - no surprise there.
Is it possible to set multiple properties in Phing via command line?
Just repeating the -D parameter should work:
phing -f mage_module.xml -DdirName=moduleX -DfileName=config
Summary:
How do I expand a property with value "download\${bulidmode}\project\setup.msi" to "download\Debug\project\setup.msi" if the property buildmode contained debug so I can use it as the file="" part of < copy >
Detail:
I have a bit of a requirement to be able to expand properties within a string in nant.
For example I have a target that is copying file A to B. A and B both come from a simple two field CSV file which I'm iterating through using
<foreach item="Line" in="filelist.csv" delim="," property="source.file,target.file">
<property name="sourcefile" value="${path::combine(source.dir,source)}" />
<property name="targetfile" value="${path::combine(download.dir,destination)}" />
<echo message="Copy ${sourcefile} to ${targetfile}" />
<copy file="${sourcefile" tofile="${destination}" />
</foreach>
and the filelist.csv will be
build\manifest.xml
solutiondirectory\setup-proj-directory\Release\setupproj.msi,ProductA\ProductA.msi
solutiondirectory\another-proj-dir\Release\setupproj.msi,ProductB\ProductB.msi
(The reason we split these out is that we write multi-tiered applications and deploy by MSI to each tier - so one product has multiple msi's all built with the same version numbers)
Anyway - I want to change this to that I no longer have "Release" in the filelist.csv file but something like ${build.mode}. I would wrap the above code with a
<foreach item="String" in="Release,Debug" delim="," property="build.mode">
....as above
</foreach>
and the property embedded within the string in the file gets expanded.
I've been beating my head against a brick wall for a few hours, but just can't figure it out.
Thanks
It is possible with a custom function :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project>
<script language="C#" prefix="vbfox" >
<code>
<![CDATA[
[Function("expand")]
public string ExpandString(string str)
{
return Project.Properties.ExpandProperties(str, Location.UnknownLocation);
}
]]>
</code>
</script>
<property name="hello" value="{path::combine('_hello_', '_world_')}" />
<property name="hello" value="${'$' + hello}" />
<echo message="${hello}" />
<echo message="${vbfox::expand(hello)}" />
</project>
When I do a ReadLinesFromFile on a file in MSBUILD and go to output that file again, I get all the text on one line. All the Carriage returns and LineFeeds are stripped out.
<Project DefaultTargets = "Deploy"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" >
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets"/>
<ItemGroup>
<MyTextFile Include="$(ReleaseNotesDir)$(NewBuildNumber).txt"/>
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="ReadReleaseNotes">
<ReadLinesFromFile
File="#(MyTextFile)" >
<Output
TaskParameter="Lines"
ItemName="ReleaseNoteItems"/>
</ReadLinesFromFile>
</Target>
<Target Name="MailUsers" DependsOnTargets="ReadReleaseNotes" >
<Mail SmtpServer="$(MailServer)"
To="$(MyEMail)"
From="$(MyEMail)"
Subject="Test Mail Task"
Body="#(ReleaseNoteItems)" />
</Target>
<Target Name="Deploy">
<CallTarget Targets="MailUsers" />
</Target>
</Project>
I get the text from the file which normally looks like this
- New Deployment Tool for BLAH
- Random other stuff()""
Coming out like this
- New Deployment Tool for BLAH;- Random other stuff()""
I know that the code for ReadLinesFromFile will pull the data in one line at a time and strip out the carriage returns.
Is there a way to put them back in?
So my e-mail looks all nicely formatted?
Thanks
The problem here is you are using the ReadLinesFromFile task in a manner it wasn't intended.
ReadLinesFromFile Task
Reads a list of items from a text file.
So it's not just reading all the text from a file, it's reading individual items from a file and returning an item group of ITaskItems. Whenever you output a list of items using the #() syntax you will get a separated list, the default of which is a semicolon. This example illustrates this behavior:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="3.5">
<ItemGroup>
<Color Include="Red" />
<Color Include="Blue" />
<Color Include="Green" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<Message Text="ItemGroup Color: #(Color)" />
</Target>
</Project>
And the output looks like this:
ItemGroup Color: Red;Blue;Green
So while the best solution to your problem is to write an MSBuild task that reads a file into a property as a string an not a list of items, that's really not what you asked for. You asked if there was a way to put them back, and there is using MSBuild Transforms.
Transforms are used to create one list from another and also have the ability to transform using a custom separator. So the answer is to transform your list read in using ReadItemsFromFile into another list with newlines. Here is an example that does just that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" ToolsVersion="3.5">
<ItemGroup>
<File Include="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\Test.txt" />
</ItemGroup>
<Target Name="Build">
<ReadLinesFromFile File="#(File)">
<Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="FileContents" />
</ReadLinesFromFile>
<Message Text="FileContents: #(FileContents)" />
<Message Text="FileContents Transformed: #(FileContents->'%(Identity)', '%0a%0d')" />
</Target>
</Project>
Test.text looks like:
Red
Green
Blue
And the output looks like this:
[C:\temp]:: msbuild test.proj
Microsoft (R) Build Engine Version 3.5.21022.8
[Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.1433]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.
Build started 11/8/2008 8:16:59 AM.
Project "C:\temp\test.proj" on node 0 (default targets).
FileContents: Red;Green;Blue
FileContents Transformed: Red
Green
Blue
Done Building Project "C:\temp\test.proj" (default targets).
Build succeeded.
0 Warning(s)
0 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:00:00.03
What's going on here is two things.
#(FileContents->'%(Identity)', '%0a%0d')
We are transforming the list from one type to another using the same values (Identity) but a custom separator '%0a%0d'
We are using MSBuild Escaping to escape the line feed (%0a) and carriage return (%0d)
If you are using MSBuild 4.0, you can do the following instead, to get the contents of a file:
$([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($FilePath))
Instead of #(FileContents->'%(Identity)', '%0a%0d') I believe you can do #(FileContents, '%0a%0d')
You can use WriteLinesToFile combined with
$([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($(SourceFilePath))):
< WriteLinesToFile File="$(DestinationFilePath)" Lines="$([System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($(SourceFilePath)))"
Overwrite="true"
/>
This will copy your file exactly at it is.