passing fileset as a property

["Fiedler, Raul" <Ra...@ecb.int>]

"yeah, I've been trying to do this too. Is this feature beyond the
capabilities of Ant?"

I am looking for possibility to define a group of filees (fileset) as a
property and perform different task with it.
Example jar fileset or delete fileset.

Is there another approach to it or maybe add this one to suggestions for ANT
1.5???

Thanks a lot.
Raul

cnsxxx09@netscape.net wrote:
>Hi,

>I know I can use the 'includes' in the <jar> tag and also include a
basedir, but the META-INF doesn't live in the basedir, and besides this
whole approach is m-ugly when compared to the concept of FileSets.

>Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

>Thanks IA

>C.
--

cnsxxx09@netscape.net wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have an EJB ant target that runs the Jar command over a specified set of
files.
>In order to make this really useful & re-usable I want to be able to
re-call it many times but passing in different filesets.
>
>>From the docs <path id="base.path"> and  <path refid="base.path"> look like
what I am looking for, but I cannot use the path tag within the jar
command/tag.
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction.
>
>TIA
>
>C.
>--

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Re: passing fileset as a property

[Mitchell Ackermann <mi...@epsiia.com>]

Going one step further, you could have a patternset like
  <patternset id="pattern1">
    <include name="a.jar"/>
    <include name="b.zip"/>
    <include name="c.java"/>
    <include name="*"/>
    ...
  </patternset>
(hopefully you wouldn't use jar and zip and java files all at the same time; just an example)

Then, you could create multiple filesets in different directories with that same pattern:

  <fileset dir="${dir1}" id="fileset1">
    <patternset refid="pattern1"/>
  </fileset>

  <fileset dir="${dir2}" id="fileset2">
    <patternset refid="pattern1"/>
  </fileset>

I use this sometimes with a patternset like
  <patternset id="files">
    <include name="Class1.*"/>
    <include name="Class2.*"/>
    <include name="Class3.*"/>
  </patternset>

Then I use that pattern to reference .java files in a source directory, and .class files in a build directory.
And this is with Ant 1.3.

Mitchell Ackermann


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Matthew Inger <ma...@sedonacorp.com>


Fiedler, Raul wrote:

>"yeah, I've been trying to do this too. Is this feature beyond the
>capabilities of Ant?"
>
>I am looking for possibility to define a group of filees (fileset) as a
>property and perform different task with it.
>Example jar fileset or delete fileset.
>

I would try creating the filesets, and assigning them id's.  Then you 
could pass
in the id as a paramter to a function, and do your stuff:

<fileset id="abc" .. >
 ...
</fileset>

<target name="delete_fileset">
  <delete>
    <fileset refid="${filesetid}" />
  </delete>
</target>

<target name="test">
  <antcall target="delete_fileset">
    <parameter name="filesetid" value="abc" />
  </antcall>
</target>

Re: passing fileset as a property

[Matthew Inger <ma...@sedonacorp.com>]

Matthew Inger wrote:

> Fiedler, Raul wrote:
>
>> "yeah, I've been trying to do this too. Is this feature beyond the
>> capabilities of Ant?"
>>
>> I am looking for possibility to define a group of filees (fileset) as a
>> property and perform different task with it.
>> Example jar fileset or delete fileset.
>>
>> Is there another approach to it or maybe add this one to suggestions 
>> for ANT
>> 1.5???
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>> Raul
>>
>
> I would try creating the filesets, and assigning them id's.  Then you 
> could pass
> in the id as a paramter to a function, and do your stuff:
>
> <fileset id="abc" .. >
> ...
> </fileset>
>
> <target name="delete_fileset">
>  <delete>
>    <fileset refid="${filesetid}" />
>  </delete>
> </target>
>
> <target name="test">
>  <antcall target="delete_fileset">
>    <parameter name="filesetid" value="abc" />
>  </antcall>
> </target>
>
>
> I'm not entirely sure this will work.  But it's worth a try.
> It all depends on how the refid attribute is processed, and whether
> or not it allows for variable expansion (ie. expanding "${filesetid}"
> into "abc").
>
>
>
by the way, this does work..........


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Re: passing fileset as a property

[Matthew Inger <ma...@sedonacorp.com>]

Fiedler, Raul wrote:

>"yeah, I've been trying to do this too. Is this feature beyond the
>capabilities of Ant?"
>
>I am looking for possibility to define a group of filees (fileset) as a
>property and perform different task with it.
>Example jar fileset or delete fileset.
>
>Is there another approach to it or maybe add this one to suggestions for ANT
>1.5???
>
>Thanks a lot.
>Raul
>

I would try creating the filesets, and assigning them id's.  Then you 
could pass
in the id as a paramter to a function, and do your stuff:

<fileset id="abc" .. >
 ...
</fileset>

<target name="delete_fileset">
  <delete>
    <fileset refid="${filesetid}" />
  </delete>
</target>

<target name="test">
  <antcall target="delete_fileset">
    <parameter name="filesetid" value="abc" />
  </antcall>
</target>


I'm not entirely sure this will work.  But it's worth a try.
It all depends on how the refid attribute is processed, and whether
or not it allows for variable expansion (ie. expanding "${filesetid}"
into "abc").



-- 
Matt Inger (matt.inger@sedonacorp.com)
Sedona Corporation
455 S. Gulph Road, Suite 300
King of Prussia, PA 19406
(484) 679-2213
"Self-respect - the secure feeling that no one,
 as yet, is suspicious." -H.L. Mencken