Finding the absolute path from relative (was Re: Error building struts)

[Arion Yu <ar...@stt.com.hk>]

Hi!

Is there anyway to resolve the $servlet.jar from absolute/relative to
absolute?

Should the classpath be separated with : (Unix style) or ; (Windows style)
or both are acceptable?

For the second approach, would ./ do the same work as sub/../ ?

Thanks

Arion

Stefan Bodewig wrote:

> >>>>> "AY" == Arion Yu <ar...@stt.com.hk> writes:
>
>  AY> The problem is the property sevlet.jar. The parameter can be set
>  AY> from the environment. The value may indicate a relative path (eg
>  AY> "../jakarta-servletapi/lib/servlet.jar") or absolute path (eg
>  AY> c:\servletapi\servlet.jar)
>
>  AY> What I want to do is, for the first case:
>  AY> <ant>
>  AY>   <property name="servlet.jar" value="../${servlet.jar}">
>  AY> </ant>
>
>  AY> and untoucth the value for the second case.
>
>  AY> What should I do?
>
> I'm afraid there is no easy solution that will always work. If the
> property is only going to be used in CLASSPATH constructs, you could
> just simply say
>
> <ant>
>   <property name="servlet.jar" value="../${servlet.jar}:${servlet.jar}">
> </ant>
>
> the non existing part is going to be thrown out by javac, java or
> whatever you are going to use.
>
> A more general - and more ugly - solution would be
>
> <target name="check">
>   <available property="is.relative" file="sub/../${servlet.jar}" />
> </target>
>
> <target name="subrelative" depends="check" if="is.relative">
>   <ant>
>     <property name="servlet.jar" value="../${servlet.jar}">
>   </ant>
> </target>
>
> <target name="subabsolute" depends="check" unless="is.relative">
>   <ant>
> </target>
>
> <target name="sub" depends="subrelative,subabsolute" />
>
> Stefan

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Re: Finding the absolute path from relative (was Re: Error building struts)

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de>]

>>>>> "AY" == Arion Yu <ar...@stt.com.hk> writes:

 AY> Is there anyway to resolve the $servlet.jar from
 AY> absolute/relative to absolute?

Project.resolveFile() would do, if you code it up in Java. I don't see
any other way right now.

 AY> Should the classpath be separated with : (Unix style) or ;
 AY> (Windows style) or both are acceptable?

Whatever you prefer.

 AY> For the second approach, would ./ do the same work as sub/../ ?

I think it would. Try it 8^)

Stefan