Basic syntax problem

[Kenneth Litwak <kl...@apu.edu>]

   In spite of reading a book on Ant, I'm still having significant
problems in understanding the pieces, particularly frustrating given
what else I've done as a programmer (not meant as a boast, but if you
can code a CMP EJB,a scripting language shouldn't be hard).  My team ha
a big Ant build script.  I added a task that is supposed to run from a
basedir, apu-reg, and use the test.class file in
Basedir/build/test/classes/edu/apu/directory/test.class
And when running be able to refer to classes in
basedir/build/classes/edu/apu/directory/*.class
as well as
basedir/build/classes/edu/apu/registration/*.class

I already have a compile task for the Test.java, written by someone
else.
I copied it and modified it to write this:
	<echo message="Running Test ${class} ${args}"/>
		<java fork="true" dir="${build.dir}"/test/classes
classname="${class}">
			<arg line="${args}"/>
			<classpath>
				<pathelement
path="${build.dir}/test/classes"/>
                        <pathelement path="${build.dir}/classes"/>
				<fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
					<include name="*.jar"/>
				</fileset>
			</classpath>
		</java>
	</target>

When I run ant test-run, I get an error for this task:

Buildfile: build.xml

BUILD FAILED
C:\cvsfolder\javalib\apu-reg\build.xml:207: Element type "java" must be
followed
 by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".

Total time: 0 seconds


So what am I missing?  I could sure use something to read that gives a
detailed explanation of pathelements and filesets.  The book I have is
not nearly detailed enough for my purposes.  I have no idea if I've got
this specified correctly.  Thanks.

Ken  

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Re: Basic syntax problem

["Jack J. Woehr" <ja...@purematrix.com>]

Kenneth Litwak wrote:


>
>                 <java fork="true" dir="${build.dir}"/test/classes

/test/classes cannnot dangle outside the quotation marks. Correct is:

<java fork="true" dir="${build.dir}/test/classes"

... etc. ... the quotes are not concatenation operators, they're marks
of XML syntax.


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Re: Basic syntax problem

[Peter Davison <pe...@tfnet.ca>]

Hi Kenneth.

If your code snippet is straight out of your build script (and it's not just a
typo in your email) you have a double quote '"' in the wrong place.  Replace:

<java fork="true" dir="${build.dir}"/test/classes

with 

<java fork="true" dir="${build.dir}/test/classes"

Not sure if that's the only problem, :-)  but it would definitely be the cause
of the mentioned error.

Hope that helps.

Pete. 

On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:19:24 -0700
"Kenneth Litwak" <kl...@apu.edu> wrote:

>    In spite of reading a book on Ant, I'm still having significant
> problems in understanding the pieces, particularly frustrating given
> what else I've done as a programmer (not meant as a boast, but if you
> can code a CMP EJB,a scripting language shouldn't be hard).  My team ha
> a big Ant build script.  I added a task that is supposed to run from a
> basedir, apu-reg, and use the test.class file in
> Basedir/build/test/classes/edu/apu/directory/test.class
> And when running be able to refer to classes in
> basedir/build/classes/edu/apu/directory/*.class
> as well as
> basedir/build/classes/edu/apu/registration/*.class
> 
> I already have a compile task for the Test.java, written by someone
> else.
> I copied it and modified it to write this:
> 	<echo message="Running Test ${class} ${args}"/>
> 		<java fork="true" dir="${build.dir}"/test/classes
> classname="${class}">
> 			<arg line="${args}"/>
> 			<classpath>
> 				<pathelement
> path="${build.dir}/test/classes"/>
>                         <pathelement path="${build.dir}/classes"/>
> 				<fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
> 					<include name="*.jar"/>
> 				</fileset>
> 			</classpath>
> 		</java>
> 	</target>
> 
> When I run ant test-run, I get an error for this task:
> 
> Buildfile: build.xml
> 
> BUILD FAILED
> C:\cvsfolder\javalib\apu-reg\build.xml:207: Element type "java" must be
> followed
>  by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
> 
> Total time: 0 seconds
> 
> 
> So what am I missing?  I could sure use something to read that gives a
> detailed explanation of pathelements and filesets.  The book I have is
> not nearly detailed enough for my purposes.  I have no idea if I've got
> this specified correctly.  Thanks.
> 
> Ken  
> 
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