jelly intro

["Sonnek, Ryan" <Ry...@bpc.com>]

I'm a new plugin developer looking for resources on jelly scripting.  To be
exact, I'm looking for how to iterate through a list of folders and modify
files that match a certain pattern.  any tutorials or examples you could
point me to?  I've searched through the plugins I have installed, but
haven't found anything yet that matches this.

Thanks.
Ryan

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Re: jelly intro

[Jason van Zyl <jv...@maven.org>]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:02, Sonnek, Ryan wrote:
> I'm a new plugin developer looking for resources on jelly scripting.  To be
> exact, I'm looking for how to iterate through a list of folders and modify
> files that match a certain pattern.  any tutorials or examples you could
> point me to?  I've searched through the plugins I have installed, but
> haven't found anything yet that matches this.

I would highly recommend you encapsulate your little tool in a POJO and
use the POJO from Jelly. So in Jelly you would end up with something
like:

<toolbox:fileChanger
  directory="/my/dir"
  filepattern="**/*.txt"
  find="^monkey"
  replace="donkey"/>

Then you can easily unit test it. Leverage your knowledge of Java, you
don't have to program in Jelly and I highly recommend you don't. Jelly
is an awesome integrator though and that's how you should use it. It's
dead simple to use a POJO from Jelly.

> Thanks.
> Ryan
> 
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