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Prompt
Is there any way to prompt for information during a script (without writing
a custom task)? When I compile my code for release, we tag it in CVS. We
then use this tag name in the code to generate the version numbers.
What I would like to do is have ant prompt me for a tag and a branch. Then
it could automatically check out the correct tagged version of the files
that contain the $Name$, compile it (with the $Name$ expanded), build jars,
and then checkout the head of the branch again so I am where I left off.
I could do this with command line parameters as well, but using it this way
in netbeans is a little less convenient.
Thanks for your time,
Mark
---------------------
Mark Claassen
Donnell Systems, Inc.
300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203
South Bend, IN 46617
E-mail: mailto:mark.claassen@donnell.com
Voice: (219)232-3784
Fax: (219)232-4014
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Re: Prompt
Posted by Krystan Honour <kh...@allstor-sw.co.uk>.
Hi,
this is extremely useful. Only one problem I ran this successfully under
windows which prompted for a password that I use to sign my jars with and
signed it. When I tried to use the same script under linux I get a file not
found exception because it can't find the file "con" ? which is asked for in
the stream handler. Any ideas ?
Krys
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Perevalov" <pp...@cyber-asp.com>
To: "Ant Users List" <an...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:02 PM
Subject: RE: Prompt
>
> You have to add in ant\lib directory bsf.jar from
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bsf for script task
> and js.jar from http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html for javascript
> support.
>
> Paul Perevalov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Claassen [mailto:mac@donnell.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:52 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: Prompt
>
>
> Thanks! It will take me a while to get through all this, but this sounds
> like just the ticket. Will ant run this just by itself, or do I need
> something to help it with the JavaScript? I tried in using the ant1.3
that
> is bundled in with netbeans 3.2.1 and it didn't work. Maybe the optional
> tasks are not included by default.
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Perevalov [mailto:pperevalov@cyber-asp.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:16 PM
> > To: Ant Users List
> > Subject: RE: Prompt
> >
> >
> > I wrote my own target which uses javascript to get some user input into
> > properties and then run another tagets.
> > You can place this target in common build file and then include it main
> > build file.
> > Here is the target itself, after this target you can find example
> > how to use
> > it.
> >
> > <target name="doTargetWithUserInput" description="Executes target
> > where some
> > parameters provided by user from kbd.">
> > <script language="javascript"> <![CDATA[
> > importPackage(Packages.java.lang);
> > importPackage(Packages.java.io);
> > project = doTargetWithUserInput.getProject();
> > //get comma separated user prompts
> > var prompts = project.getProperty("prompts");
> > //get comma separated user properties which should be set
> > var properties = project.getProperty("properties");
> > //get comma separated targets to be executed
> > var targets = project.getProperty("targets");
> >
> > //get standart input stream
> > var stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
> > FileInputStream("con")));
> >
> > //split prompts,properties and targets to arrays
> > var arrPrompts = Split(String(prompts),",");
> > var arrProperties = Split(String(properties),",");
> > var arrTargets = Split(String(targets),",");
> >
> > //fail if number of properties does not match to number of prompts
> > if(arrPrompts.length != arrProperties.length){
> > fail = project.createTask("fail");
> > fail.setMessage("Number of prompts does not match to the number of
> > properties.");
> > fail.execute();
> > }
> >
> > //get value for each property from user by showing corresponding
prompt
> > var temp = "";
> > for (var i = 0; i < arrPrompts.length; i++){
> > System.out.println(arrPrompts[i]);
> > temp = stdin.readLine();
> > project.setProperty(arrProperties[i],temp);
> > }
> >
> > //execute each target which now will have access to new properties
> > for (var j = 0; j < arrTargets.length; j++){
> > project.executeTarget(arrTargets[j]);
> > }
> >
> > function Split(Expression, Delimiter)
> > {
> > var temp = Expression;
> > var a, b = 0;
> > var array = new Array();
> >
> > if (Delimiter.length == 0)
> > {
> > array[0] = Expression;
> > return (array);
> > }
> >
> > if (Expression.length == '')
> > {
> > array[0] = Expression;
> > return (array);
> > }
> >
> > Delimiter = Delimiter.charAt(0);
> >
> > for (var i = 0; i < Expression.length; i++)
> > {
> > a = temp.indexOf(Delimiter);
> > if (a == -1)
> > {
> > array[i] = temp;
> > break;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > b = (b + a) + 1;
> > var temp2 = temp.substring(0, a);
> > array[i] = temp2;
> > temp = Expression.substr(b,
> > Expression.length - temp2.length);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > return (array);
> > }
> >
> > ]]></script>
> > </target>
> >
> > Then you can use this target to get some user input and run another
> > target(s).
> >
> > <antcall target="doTargetWithUserInput">
> > <param name="prompts" value="Enter user ID:,Enter user password:"/>
> > <param name="properties" value="user,pwd"/>
> > <param name="targets" value="doSomething"/>
> > </antcall>
> >
> > <target name="doSomething" description="Do something with user input">
> > <echo message="User id: ${user}, password : ${pwd}"/>
> > </target>
> >
> > Hope this help.
> >
> > Paul Perevalov
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Claassen [mailto:mac@donnell.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:51 AM
> > To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Prompt
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to prompt for information during a script
> > (without writing
> > a custom task)? When I compile my code for release, we tag it in CVS.
> We
> > then use this tag name in the code to generate the version numbers.
> >
> > What I would like to do is have ant prompt me for a tag and a
> > branch. Then
> > it could automatically check out the correct tagged version of the files
> > that contain the $Name$, compile it (with the $Name$ expanded),
> > build jars,
> > and then checkout the head of the branch again so I am where I left off.
> >
> > I could do this with command line parameters as well, but using
> > it this way
> > in netbeans is a little less convenient.
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Mark
> >
> > ---------------------
> > Mark Claassen
> > Donnell Systems, Inc.
> > 300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203
> > South Bend, IN 46617
> > E-mail: mailto:mark.claassen@donnell.com
> > Voice: (219)232-3784
> > Fax: (219)232-4014
> >
> >
> >
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RE: Prompt
Posted by Paul Perevalov <pp...@cyber-asp.com>.
You have to add in ant\lib directory bsf.jar from
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bsf for script task
and js.jar from http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html for javascript
support.
Paul Perevalov
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Claassen [mailto:mac@donnell.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:52 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: Prompt
Thanks! It will take me a while to get through all this, but this sounds
like just the ticket. Will ant run this just by itself, or do I need
something to help it with the JavaScript? I tried in using the ant1.3 that
is bundled in with netbeans 3.2.1 and it didn't work. Maybe the optional
tasks are not included by default.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Perevalov [mailto:pperevalov@cyber-asp.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:16 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: Prompt
>
>
> I wrote my own target which uses javascript to get some user input into
> properties and then run another tagets.
> You can place this target in common build file and then include it main
> build file.
> Here is the target itself, after this target you can find example
> how to use
> it.
>
> <target name="doTargetWithUserInput" description="Executes target
> where some
> parameters provided by user from kbd.">
> <script language="javascript"> <![CDATA[
> importPackage(Packages.java.lang);
> importPackage(Packages.java.io);
> project = doTargetWithUserInput.getProject();
> //get comma separated user prompts
> var prompts = project.getProperty("prompts");
> //get comma separated user properties which should be set
> var properties = project.getProperty("properties");
> //get comma separated targets to be executed
> var targets = project.getProperty("targets");
>
> //get standart input stream
> var stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
> FileInputStream("con")));
>
> //split prompts,properties and targets to arrays
> var arrPrompts = Split(String(prompts),",");
> var arrProperties = Split(String(properties),",");
> var arrTargets = Split(String(targets),",");
>
> //fail if number of properties does not match to number of prompts
> if(arrPrompts.length != arrProperties.length){
> fail = project.createTask("fail");
> fail.setMessage("Number of prompts does not match to the number of
> properties.");
> fail.execute();
> }
>
> //get value for each property from user by showing corresponding prompt
> var temp = "";
> for (var i = 0; i < arrPrompts.length; i++){
> System.out.println(arrPrompts[i]);
> temp = stdin.readLine();
> project.setProperty(arrProperties[i],temp);
> }
>
> //execute each target which now will have access to new properties
> for (var j = 0; j < arrTargets.length; j++){
> project.executeTarget(arrTargets[j]);
> }
>
> function Split(Expression, Delimiter)
> {
> var temp = Expression;
> var a, b = 0;
> var array = new Array();
>
> if (Delimiter.length == 0)
> {
> array[0] = Expression;
> return (array);
> }
>
> if (Expression.length == '')
> {
> array[0] = Expression;
> return (array);
> }
>
> Delimiter = Delimiter.charAt(0);
>
> for (var i = 0; i < Expression.length; i++)
> {
> a = temp.indexOf(Delimiter);
> if (a == -1)
> {
> array[i] = temp;
> break;
> }
> else
> {
> b = (b + a) + 1;
> var temp2 = temp.substring(0, a);
> array[i] = temp2;
> temp = Expression.substr(b,
> Expression.length - temp2.length);
> }
> }
>
> return (array);
> }
>
> ]]></script>
> </target>
>
> Then you can use this target to get some user input and run another
> target(s).
>
> <antcall target="doTargetWithUserInput">
> <param name="prompts" value="Enter user ID:,Enter user password:"/>
> <param name="properties" value="user,pwd"/>
> <param name="targets" value="doSomething"/>
> </antcall>
>
> <target name="doSomething" description="Do something with user input">
> <echo message="User id: ${user}, password : ${pwd}"/>
> </target>
>
> Hope this help.
>
> Paul Perevalov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Claassen [mailto:mac@donnell.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:51 AM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Prompt
>
>
> Is there any way to prompt for information during a script
> (without writing
> a custom task)? When I compile my code for release, we tag it in CVS. We
> then use this tag name in the code to generate the version numbers.
>
> What I would like to do is have ant prompt me for a tag and a
> branch. Then
> it could automatically check out the correct tagged version of the files
> that contain the $Name$, compile it (with the $Name$ expanded),
> build jars,
> and then checkout the head of the branch again so I am where I left off.
>
> I could do this with command line parameters as well, but using
> it this way
> in netbeans is a little less convenient.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Mark
>
> ---------------------
> Mark Claassen
> Donnell Systems, Inc.
> 300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203
> South Bend, IN 46617
> E-mail: mailto:mark.claassen@donnell.com
> Voice: (219)232-3784
> Fax: (219)232-4014
>
>
>
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>
>
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RE: Prompt
Posted by Mark Claassen <ma...@donnell.com>.
Thanks! It will take me a while to get through all this, but this sounds
like just the ticket. Will ant run this just by itself, or do I need
something to help it with the JavaScript? I tried in using the ant1.3 that
is bundled in with netbeans 3.2.1 and it didn't work. Maybe the optional
tasks are not included by default.
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Perevalov [mailto:pperevalov@cyber-asp.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:16 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: Prompt
>
>
> I wrote my own target which uses javascript to get some user input into
> properties and then run another tagets.
> You can place this target in common build file and then include it main
> build file.
> Here is the target itself, after this target you can find example
> how to use
> it.
>
> <target name="doTargetWithUserInput" description="Executes target
> where some
> parameters provided by user from kbd.">
> <script language="javascript"> <![CDATA[
> importPackage(Packages.java.lang);
> importPackage(Packages.java.io);
> project = doTargetWithUserInput.getProject();
> //get comma separated user prompts
> var prompts = project.getProperty("prompts");
> //get comma separated user properties which should be set
> var properties = project.getProperty("properties");
> //get comma separated targets to be executed
> var targets = project.getProperty("targets");
>
> //get standart input stream
> var stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
> FileInputStream("con")));
>
> //split prompts,properties and targets to arrays
> var arrPrompts = Split(String(prompts),",");
> var arrProperties = Split(String(properties),",");
> var arrTargets = Split(String(targets),",");
>
> //fail if number of properties does not match to number of prompts
> if(arrPrompts.length != arrProperties.length){
> fail = project.createTask("fail");
> fail.setMessage("Number of prompts does not match to the number of
> properties.");
> fail.execute();
> }
>
> //get value for each property from user by showing corresponding prompt
> var temp = "";
> for (var i = 0; i < arrPrompts.length; i++){
> System.out.println(arrPrompts[i]);
> temp = stdin.readLine();
> project.setProperty(arrProperties[i],temp);
> }
>
> //execute each target which now will have access to new properties
> for (var j = 0; j < arrTargets.length; j++){
> project.executeTarget(arrTargets[j]);
> }
>
> function Split(Expression, Delimiter)
> {
> var temp = Expression;
> var a, b = 0;
> var array = new Array();
>
> if (Delimiter.length == 0)
> {
> array[0] = Expression;
> return (array);
> }
>
> if (Expression.length == '')
> {
> array[0] = Expression;
> return (array);
> }
>
> Delimiter = Delimiter.charAt(0);
>
> for (var i = 0; i < Expression.length; i++)
> {
> a = temp.indexOf(Delimiter);
> if (a == -1)
> {
> array[i] = temp;
> break;
> }
> else
> {
> b = (b + a) + 1;
> var temp2 = temp.substring(0, a);
> array[i] = temp2;
> temp = Expression.substr(b,
> Expression.length - temp2.length);
> }
> }
>
> return (array);
> }
>
> ]]></script>
> </target>
>
> Then you can use this target to get some user input and run another
> target(s).
>
> <antcall target="doTargetWithUserInput">
> <param name="prompts" value="Enter user ID:,Enter user password:"/>
> <param name="properties" value="user,pwd"/>
> <param name="targets" value="doSomething"/>
> </antcall>
>
> <target name="doSomething" description="Do something with user input">
> <echo message="User id: ${user}, password : ${pwd}"/>
> </target>
>
> Hope this help.
>
> Paul Perevalov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Claassen [mailto:mac@donnell.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:51 AM
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Prompt
>
>
> Is there any way to prompt for information during a script
> (without writing
> a custom task)? When I compile my code for release, we tag it in CVS. We
> then use this tag name in the code to generate the version numbers.
>
> What I would like to do is have ant prompt me for a tag and a
> branch. Then
> it could automatically check out the correct tagged version of the files
> that contain the $Name$, compile it (with the $Name$ expanded),
> build jars,
> and then checkout the head of the branch again so I am where I left off.
>
> I could do this with command line parameters as well, but using
> it this way
> in netbeans is a little less convenient.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Mark
>
> ---------------------
> Mark Claassen
> Donnell Systems, Inc.
> 300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203
> South Bend, IN 46617
> E-mail: mailto:mark.claassen@donnell.com
> Voice: (219)232-3784
> Fax: (219)232-4014
>
>
>
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RE: Prompt
Posted by Paul Perevalov <pp...@cyber-asp.com>.
I wrote my own target which uses javascript to get some user input into
properties and then run another tagets.
You can place this target in common build file and then include it main
build file.
Here is the target itself, after this target you can find example how to use
it.
<target name="doTargetWithUserInput" description="Executes target where some
parameters provided by user from kbd.">
<script language="javascript"> <![CDATA[
importPackage(Packages.java.lang);
importPackage(Packages.java.io);
project = doTargetWithUserInput.getProject();
//get comma separated user prompts
var prompts = project.getProperty("prompts");
//get comma separated user properties which should be set
var properties = project.getProperty("properties");
//get comma separated targets to be executed
var targets = project.getProperty("targets");
//get standart input stream
var stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
FileInputStream("con")));
//split prompts,properties and targets to arrays
var arrPrompts = Split(String(prompts),",");
var arrProperties = Split(String(properties),",");
var arrTargets = Split(String(targets),",");
//fail if number of properties does not match to number of prompts
if(arrPrompts.length != arrProperties.length){
fail = project.createTask("fail");
fail.setMessage("Number of prompts does not match to the number of
properties.");
fail.execute();
}
//get value for each property from user by showing corresponding prompt
var temp = "";
for (var i = 0; i < arrPrompts.length; i++){
System.out.println(arrPrompts[i]);
temp = stdin.readLine();
project.setProperty(arrProperties[i],temp);
}
//execute each target which now will have access to new properties
for (var j = 0; j < arrTargets.length; j++){
project.executeTarget(arrTargets[j]);
}
function Split(Expression, Delimiter)
{
var temp = Expression;
var a, b = 0;
var array = new Array();
if (Delimiter.length == 0)
{
array[0] = Expression;
return (array);
}
if (Expression.length == '')
{
array[0] = Expression;
return (array);
}
Delimiter = Delimiter.charAt(0);
for (var i = 0; i < Expression.length; i++)
{
a = temp.indexOf(Delimiter);
if (a == -1)
{
array[i] = temp;
break;
}
else
{
b = (b + a) + 1;
var temp2 = temp.substring(0, a);
array[i] = temp2;
temp = Expression.substr(b, Expression.length - temp2.length);
}
}
return (array);
}
]]></script>
</target>
Then you can use this target to get some user input and run another
target(s).
<antcall target="doTargetWithUserInput">
<param name="prompts" value="Enter user ID:,Enter user password:"/>
<param name="properties" value="user,pwd"/>
<param name="targets" value="doSomething"/>
</antcall>
<target name="doSomething" description="Do something with user input">
<echo message="User id: ${user}, password : ${pwd}"/>
</target>
Hope this help.
Paul Perevalov
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Claassen [mailto:mac@donnell.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:51 AM
To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Prompt
Is there any way to prompt for information during a script (without writing
a custom task)? When I compile my code for release, we tag it in CVS. We
then use this tag name in the code to generate the version numbers.
What I would like to do is have ant prompt me for a tag and a branch. Then
it could automatically check out the correct tagged version of the files
that contain the $Name$, compile it (with the $Name$ expanded), build jars,
and then checkout the head of the branch again so I am where I left off.
I could do this with command line parameters as well, but using it this way
in netbeans is a little less convenient.
Thanks for your time,
Mark
---------------------
Mark Claassen
Donnell Systems, Inc.
300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203
South Bend, IN 46617
E-mail: mailto:mark.claassen@donnell.com
Voice: (219)232-3784
Fax: (219)232-4014
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