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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Ken Gentle <Ke...@iMedium.com> on 2001/12/11 14:06:38 UTC
Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Hello all - I'm having a really hard time making 'pathconvert' do what I
think it should. The build file below is supposed to replace the first
several characters of a path with a platform specific root, but the
substitutions don't happen like I thought they should:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="imf" default="dump-info" basedir=".">
<property name="tools.unix.iplanet" value="/opt" />
<property name="tools.windows.iplanet" value="D:\" />
<property name="PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN" value="/prefix" />
<property name="home.iplanet"
value="${PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN}/iplanet/ias6/ias"/>
<path id="path.iplanet">
<pathelement location="${home.iplanet}/classes/java/iasclient.jar}" />
</path>
<target name="generate_classpath" >
<echo message="BEFORE: PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN=${PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN}"/>
<echo message="BEFORE: home.iplanet=${home.iplanet}"/>
<echo message="BEFORE: tools.windows.iplanet=${tools.windows.iplanet}"/>
<echo message="BEFORE: classpath.project=${classpath.project}"/>
<pathconvert targetos="windows" property="classpath.project"
refid="path.iplanet">
<map from="${PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN}" to="${tools.windows.iplanet}" />
</pathconvert>
<echo message="AFTER: classpath.project=${classpath.project} "/>
</target>
<target name="dump-info" depends="generate_classpath">
<echo message="ant.version=${ant.version}" />
<echo message="ant.file=${ant.file}" />
<echo message="" />
<echo message="java.vm.info=${java.vm.info}" />
<echo message="java.vm.name=${java.vm.name}" />
<echo message="java.vm.vendor=${java.vm.vendor}" />
<echo message="java.vm.version=${java.vm.version}" />
<echo message="os.arch=${os.arch}" />
<echo message="os.name=${os.name}" />
<echo message="os.version=${os.version}" />
<echo message="" />
<echo message="classpath.project=${classpath.project}" />
</target>
</project>
Executing ant against this produces the following:
Buildfile: build.xml
generate_classpath:
[echo] BEFORE: PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN=/prefix
[echo] BEFORE: home.iplanet=/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias
[echo] BEFORE: tools.windows.iplanet=D:\
[echo] BEFORE: classpath.project=${classpath.project}
[echo]
AFTER:
classpath.project=e:\prefix\iplanet\ias6\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
dump-info:
[echo] ant.version=Ant version 1.4 compiled on October 11 2001
[echo] ant.file=e:\home\kgentle\work\head\imf_ii\build.xml
[echo]
[echo] java.vm.info=mixed mode
[echo] java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
[echo] java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
[echo] java.vm.version=1.3.0-C
[echo] os.arch=x86
[echo] os.name=Windows NT
[echo] os.version=4.0
[echo]
[echo]
classpath.project=e:\prefix\iplanet\ias6\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
Why does 'pathconvert' ignore the substitution of "D:\" for "/prefix"?
Why does it prepend the "e:\" instead?
Should I be doing this a different way?
Thanks in advance!
Ken
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Re: Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Posted by Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>.
--- Ken Gentle <j....@acm.org> wrote:
> You are seeing the same behavior that I am - the difference is that I
> invoked ant from a directory on my "e:\" drive, and you from your "d:\"
> drive.
Whoops -- sorry, read your initial mail a bit too quickly, and thought
your only problem was getting the drive letter to be "D" instead of "E".
Also didn't look at <pathconvert> all that closely, either -- turns out
it's a bit wigged out (or just not that well documented, since the
examples in the manual don't work correctly, either).
> It appears that the "map" element is being ignored for some reason,
The reason is, it doesn't match anything -- the drive letter has already
been prepended to your path, and the directory separator has already been
converted to DOS backslashes, so the pathname you're trying to "convert"
no longer starts with /prefix.
> and since the path looks like an absolute path (starts with a "/") the
> "targetos=windows", it defaults to the current drive letter (e in my
> case, d in yours).
Actually, it looks like <path>/<pathelement> is what's putting the drive
letter on it and doing the dir separator conversion. If you assign your
path id to a property and <echo> that out, you'll see what it already
looks like before it ever gets to <pathconvert>.
> I expected pathconvert to strip the "/prefix" from
> "/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias/..." and replace it with a "D:\", with a
> resulting classpath.project property defined as
> "D:\iplanet\ias6\ias". Isn't that the expected behavior?
You'd think so, huh? :) But given what <path>/<pathelement> is doing, it
looks to me like the only way to end up with that as the result (when
you're running on Windows box) is to replace "D:\prefix" with "D:"
(assuming "D:" is your current drive).
Diane
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Pathconvert bug - was Re: Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Posted by Ken Gentle <j....@acm.org>.
This is a bug - I can't get the examples from the pathconvert
documentation to work either, at least on my Windows NT box. I'm going to
verify the same behavior on UNIX, then submit a bug.
Ken
At 02:07 PM 12/11/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>You are seeing the same behavior that I am - the difference is that I
>invoked ant from a directory on my "e:\" drive, and you from your "d:\"
>drive. It appears that the "map" element is being ignored for some
>reason, and since the path looks like an absolute path (starts with a "/")
>and the "targetos=windows", it defaults to the current drive letter (e in
>my case, d in yours).
>
>I expected pathconvert to strip the "/prefix" from
>"/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias/..." and replace it with a "D:\", with a
>resulting classpath.project property defined as
>"D:\iplanet\ias6\ias". Isn't that the expected behavior?
>
>Here's a simpler build file that may point out the issue a bit better:
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><project name="imf" default="generate_classpath" basedir=".">
>
> <target name="generate_classpath" >
> <pathconvert targetos="windows" property="classpath.project">
> <path>
> <pathelement location="/prefix/iplanet/iasclient.jar" />
> </path>
> <map from="/prefix" to="Z:\" />
> </pathconvert>
> <echo message="EXPECT: classpath.project=Z:\iplanet\iasclient.jar" />
> <echo message="GOT: classpath.project=${classpath.project}" />
> </target>
>
></project>
>
>
>
>At 10:42 AM 12/11/2001 -0800, Diane Holt wrote:
>>I get:
>>$ ant -f pc.xml
>>Buildfile: pc.xml
>>
>>generate_classpath:
>> [echo] BEFORE: PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN=/prefix
>> [echo] BEFORE: home.iplanet=/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias
>> [echo] BEFORE: tools.windows.iplanet=D:\
>> [echo] BEFORE: classpath.project=${classpath.project}
>> [echo] AFTER:
>>classpath.project=D:\prefix\iplanet\ias\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
>>
>>dump-info:
>> [echo] ant.version=Ant version 1.4 compiled on September 3 2001
>> [echo] ant.file=D:\cygwin\home\dianeh\work\ant\pc.xml
>> [echo] java.vm.info=mixed mode
>> [echo] java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
>> [echo] java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
>> [echo] java.vm.version=1.3.0-C
>> [echo] os.arch=x86
>> [echo] os.name=Windows NT
>> [echo] os.version=4.0
>> [echo]
>>classpath.project=D:\prefix\iplanet\ias\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
>>
>>BUILD SUCCESSFUL
>>
>>Total time: 0 seconds
>
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Re: Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Posted by Ken Gentle <j....@acm.org>.
You are seeing the same behavior that I am - the difference is that I
invoked ant from a directory on my "e:\" drive, and you from your "d:\"
drive. It appears that the "map" element is being ignored for some reason,
and since the path looks like an absolute path (starts with a "/") and the
"targetos=windows", it defaults to the current drive letter (e in my case,
d in yours).
I expected pathconvert to strip the "/prefix" from
"/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias/..." and replace it with a "D:\", with a
resulting classpath.project property defined as
"D:\iplanet\ias6\ias". Isn't that the expected behavior?
Here's a simpler build file that may point out the issue a bit better:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="imf" default="generate_classpath" basedir=".">
<target name="generate_classpath" >
<pathconvert targetos="windows" property="classpath.project">
<path>
<pathelement location="/prefix/iplanet/iasclient.jar" />
</path>
<map from="/prefix" to="Z:\" />
</pathconvert>
<echo message="EXPECT: classpath.project=Z:\iplanet\iasclient.jar" />
<echo message="GOT: classpath.project=${classpath.project}" />
</target>
</project>
At 10:42 AM 12/11/2001 -0800, Diane Holt wrote:
>I get:
>$ ant -f pc.xml
>Buildfile: pc.xml
>
>generate_classpath:
> [echo] BEFORE: PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN=/prefix
> [echo] BEFORE: home.iplanet=/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias
> [echo] BEFORE: tools.windows.iplanet=D:\
> [echo] BEFORE: classpath.project=${classpath.project}
> [echo] AFTER:
>classpath.project=D:\prefix\iplanet\ias\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
>
>dump-info:
> [echo] ant.version=Ant version 1.4 compiled on September 3 2001
> [echo] ant.file=D:\cygwin\home\dianeh\work\ant\pc.xml
> [echo] java.vm.info=mixed mode
> [echo] java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
> [echo] java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
> [echo] java.vm.version=1.3.0-C
> [echo] os.arch=x86
> [echo] os.name=Windows NT
> [echo] os.version=4.0
> [echo]
>classpath.project=D:\prefix\iplanet\ias\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
>
>BUILD SUCCESSFUL
>
>Total time: 0 seconds
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Re: Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Posted by Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>.
--- Ken Gentle <j....@acm.org> wrote:
> At 09:35 AM 12/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >The build-file you included in this mail works for me -- are you
> >absolutely certain it's the exact same file you're running?
>
> Er, um - yes, I am.
In that case I'm as stumped as you are as to why it works for me and not
for you.
> You got something like
>
> "classpath.project=D:\iplanet\ias6\ias\iasclient.jar" ?!?
I get:
$ ant -f pc.xml
Buildfile: pc.xml
generate_classpath:
[echo] BEFORE: PATH.PREFIX.TOKEN=/prefix
[echo] BEFORE: home.iplanet=/prefix/iplanet/ias6/ias
[echo] BEFORE: tools.windows.iplanet=D:\
[echo] BEFORE: classpath.project=${classpath.project}
[echo] AFTER:
classpath.project=D:\prefix\iplanet\ias\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
dump-info:
[echo] ant.version=Ant version 1.4 compiled on September 3 2001
[echo] ant.file=D:\cygwin\home\dianeh\work\ant\pc.xml
[echo] java.vm.info=mixed mode
[echo] java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
[echo] java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
[echo] java.vm.version=1.3.0-C
[echo] os.arch=x86
[echo] os.name=Windows NT
[echo] os.version=4.0
[echo]
classpath.project=D:\prefix\iplanet\ias\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
> I am noticing an extraneous "}" in my output:
>
> [echo]
> AFTER:
> classpath.project=e:\prefix\iplanet\ias6\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
That's just because you have it in your <pathelement>:
<pathelement location="${home.iplanet}/classes/java/iasclient.jar}"/>
Diane
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Re: Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Posted by Ken Gentle <j....@acm.org>.
At 09:35 AM 12/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>The build-file you included in this mail works for me -- are you
>absolutely certain it's the exact same file you're running?
Er, um - yes, I am.
You got something like
"classpath.project=D:\iplanet\ias6\ias\iasclient.jar" ?!?
I'm stumped... I've run it with Ant 1.4, Ant 1.4.1, JDK 1.3 and JDK 1.4b3,
and I consistently get
"classpath.project=e:\prefix\iplanet\ias6\ias\iasclient.jar"
I am noticing an extraneous "}" in my output:
[echo]
AFTER:
classpath.project=e:\prefix\iplanet\ias6\ias\classes\java\iasclient.jar}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^
I open to any ideas as to how to proceed!
Thanks
Ken
BTW, didn't you used to be on the JAMMING list a lot? Doing JAM support?
>Diane
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Re: Help with 'pathconvert', please!
Posted by Diane Holt <ho...@yahoo.com>.
The build-file you included in this mail works for me -- are you
absolutely certain it's the exact same file you're running?
Diane
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