ServiceMix Ant tasks: accept URL for file

[john muth <jo...@yahoo.com>]

I have been playing with the Servicemix Ant tasks,
with good luck so far.

I was wondering whether there's any reason not to make
the install tasks accept URLs (as an alternative to
File paths).

Take the install-component task as an example.
If I'm reading the code correctly (big if!), a small
change to the InstallComponentTask.doExecute method
would do the trick:
 1) don't throw an exception if !archive.isFile()
 2) if "file" is not a file, assume it's a URL and
pass it through to acs.installComponent instead of
archive.absolutePath

I'm basing my assumption that this would work on the
logic in AutoDeploymentService.unpackLocation, which I
believe is where we end up, stepping through
acs.installComponent -- logic that tries to treat the
'location' string parameter as a URL if it doesn't
look like a file... exactly what I want.

Thanks for any advice,
John Muth




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Re: ServiceMix Ant tasks: accept URL for file

[James Strachan <ja...@gmail.com>]

Sounds a great idea to me. Fancy submitting a patch? :)
http://incubator.apache.org/servicemix/contributing.html

On 7/17/06, john muth <jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have been playing with the Servicemix Ant tasks,
> with good luck so far.
>
> I was wondering whether there's any reason not to make
> the install tasks accept URLs (as an alternative to
> File paths).
>
> Take the install-component task as an example.
> If I'm reading the code correctly (big if!), a small
> change to the InstallComponentTask.doExecute method
> would do the trick:
>  1) don't throw an exception if !archive.isFile()
>  2) if "file" is not a file, assume it's a URL and
> pass it through to acs.installComponent instead of
> archive.absolutePath
>
> I'm basing my assumption that this would work on the
> logic in AutoDeploymentService.unpackLocation, which I
> believe is where we end up, stepping through
> acs.installComponent -- logic that tries to treat the
> 'location' string parameter as a URL if it doesn't
> look like a file... exactly what I want.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> John Muth
>
>
>
>
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