Re: How can I execute Ant targets from within a Java program?

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Kriger
Voila! That worked. Guess I'll file a bug with the Ant team and see what happens. Thank you all for the ideas. So, once you have a Target, do you have to call dependent targets manually? The Ant code doesn't recurse dependencies automatically? I mean, that's the behavior I'm seeing but I want to c

Re: AW: ant access of java constants

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Hatcher
Could you post your Diagnostic.java code? I think your best bet to solving the issue is to dig under the hood of its code and see what makes it tick and experiment. Or, certainly simpler, write a custom Ant task that gets the information from Diagnostic and sets and Ant property. It'd only be

Re: How can I execute Ant targets from within a Java program?

2005-01-24 Thread Andy Kriger
After digging a bit into the code, I've finally got this all figured out. When creating the project, I needed to add... p.addReference("ant.projectHelper", ph); To call a target with all the dependencies p.executeTarget(targetName); Thx again for all your help I hope to be able to make this proj

Misusing ?

2005-01-24 Thread Marion, Patrick
Hi, ant-contrib question, I think. I would like to use the "expends" feature for ; My build file looks like this: ... ... The "generictarget" is sup

Re: AW: ant access of java constants

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
Yes, my constants are "public static final". The problem, I found, is that the definition of VERSION is a method evaluation, not a compile-time constant, as you had tried. So that answers that question. The remaining issue is back on the file that I really want to use, Diagnostic.class. Changing

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
I actually need to use a separate task from my task (because of the mapping I do in the elements below). So going with the suggested fileset/pathconvert idea, I created three s...

Re: regex newbie. propertyregex help, please.

2005-01-24 Thread Nat Gross
Matt Benson wrote: propertyregex is an ant-contrib question, really, and Is there another list more appropriate for ant-contrib? you seem to be trying to use nested elements where propertyregex doesn't appear to want any, but you basically want to match "^(.*)Bean$" and replace with "\1". Ye

Re: regex newbie. propertyregex help, please.

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Benson
propertyregex is an ant-contrib question, really, and you seem to be trying to use nested elements where propertyregex doesn't appear to want any, but you basically want to match "^(.*)Bean$" and replace with "\1". HTH, Matt --- Nat Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > To a regex newbie can

regex newbie. propertyregex help, please.

2005-01-24 Thread Nat Gross
Hi; To a regex newbie can someone please supply the pattern to strip off the word "Bean" from the string. In the following, assuming that property 'beanName' contains a string 'AnyBean', the new 'beanPrefix' property should be 'Any'. (By convention, the substring 'Bean' is always at the end of

RE: how to have both xml and stdout logging?

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Ferguson
oops, got it now - use a listener.. ant -listener org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger -DXmlLogger.file=foobarbaz.xml thanks, Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 January 2005 17:25 > To: user@ant.apache.org > Subject: how to have both xml

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> -Original Message- > From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not intimately familiar with > every detail of ant, > finding things in the manual is quite a challenge. So I typically start > with a plain file search. > And my file sea

how to have both xml and stdout logging?

2005-01-24 Thread Andrew Ferguson
hi, is there a simple way to have an xml log file generated, and the normal stdout logging? I've checked through the manual and examples but there doesn't appear to be a way - if there isn't would it be reasonable to submit a RFE? thanks, Andrew --

using Ant to generate output reports from JUnit and JUnitPerf

2005-01-24 Thread Mark Meyer
hi everyone.. i am new to Ant, JUnit and JUnitPerf.. can somone point me to a tutorial on generating an output report for JUnit and corresponding JUnitPerf tests through Ant? what i am looking for is basic stuff, how long the JUnitPerf test took and whether it was successful or not. thx for any

Re: AW: Where does optional.jar come from?

2005-01-24 Thread Darin Swanson
Thank Jan :-) The latest Eclipse release has no optional.jar Eclipse 3.0.1 ships with Ant 1.6.2 Eclipse does not modify the Ant distribution...simple rebundles it and provides it within the org.apache.ant plugin. Darins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/2005 11:15 PM Please re

Re: AW: ant access of java constants

2005-01-24 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 24, 2005, at 11:05 AM, michael sorens wrote: (1) Well I tried adding bcel.jar to my ant/lib directory but it made no difference. What did make a difference was my choice of .class file to load. Instead of my Diagnostic.class I tried a simpler Version.class and then I received no error, eve

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Benson
--- michael sorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not > intimately familiar with every detail of ant, > finding things in the manual is quite a challenge. For any new user of Ant, I would heartily recommend viewing the HTML manual, frames and all, and fr

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Matt Benson
What do you think a mailing list is for? Regards, Matt --- The Blindfolded Pianist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > Why are you sending mass emails about this problem > to everybody? It's flooding my email inbox. > > -T.B.P. > > michael sorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I looke

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread The Blindfolded Pianist
Hey, Why are you sending mass emails about this problem to everybody? It's flooding my email inbox. -T.B.P. michael sorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not intimately familiar with every detail of ant, finding things in the manual is quite a challe

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
Yes, I looked in the manual. For those of us not intimately familiar with every detail of ant, finding things in the manual is quite a challenge. So I typically start with a plain file search. And my file search turned out only the single reference I mentioned, because I searched for "" not for

Re: AW: ant access of java constants

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
(1) Well I tried adding bcel.jar to my ant/lib directory but it made no difference. What did make a difference was my choice of .class file to load. Instead of my Diagnostic.class I tried a simpler Version.class and then I received no error, even *without* bcel.jar. So this seems like a data-dep

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The only reference I find to "" is in "requested-features.txt" -- I > assume that means it has not yet been implemented (or released) ...? Well, has been a core ant task for a long time. Have you looked into the manual? ;-) > In any case, her

Re: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread michael sorens
The only reference I find to "" is in "requested-features.txt" -- I assume that means it has not yet been implemented (or released) ...? In any case, here's my example:

RE: up-to-date-ness and cmd-line args

2005-01-24 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: michael sorens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I want to run a java task with a specific list of file names as command- > line arguments (typically for each file), but I also > want to run a check with a fileset that is precisely the same > list of files. How can this be done without havin

Re: How can I execute Ant targets from within a Java program?

2005-01-24 Thread praful . aggarwal
Have you tried using the deprecated method "ph.configureProject(p, new File("build-test.xml"));" instead of "ph.parse(p, new File("build-test.xml"));" Best Regards, Praful Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph : +353-1-6659256 "There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand

perform operations on two databases simultaneously?

2005-01-24 Thread Maciej Zywno
Hi all, Is it possible to perform operations on two databases simultaneously by means of Ant? I would like to schedule nightly denormalization of one database and put it denormalized form into the second database. I would like to use cruisecontrol that triggers ant task at certain moments. Is it