AW: api ref doc

2005-04-13 Thread Jan . Materne
Sure, the JavaDocs inside the -src.zip are inside the java sources :-) Jan > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 14. April 2005 00:04 > An: Ant Users List > Betreff: RE: api ref doc > > I was brow

Re: Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Roman, this would be the most simple solution using ant : Cheers, Antoine Huditsch Roman wrote: Hi, Thanks for the snippet! I found out that you can reset a property. What I want to do is quite simple (although unachievable for me): I would like to copy all files from a di

Re: Quotations in a property get corrupted when passed as an arg

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Apr 13, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Conor MacNeill wrote: Yes, easy in Unix. Can you do the same in Windows? You probably can, somehow. Well sure, of course. Um... a... :-) Touché! cheers, —ml— P.S.: Actually, we can do the same in Windows: http://cygwin.com Is that cheating? :-) :-)

Re: Quotations in a property get corrupted when passed as an arg

2005-04-13 Thread Conor MacNeill
Mark Lundquist wrote: On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Conor MacNeill wrote: There is not much Ant can do here - there is no real way for it to pass an argument that has quotes and spaces. How do you even do that yourself at the command line? Huh?! That's not even a problem... echo \"foo\"

RE: Setting log level of the XmlLogger

2005-04-13 Thread Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)
Ups... sorry, I believe you are trying to achieve the opposite as I mentioned. However, IIRC, that question has been asked before. I believe that by tweaking a bit the xsl for the log, you can achieve what you want. The $ANT_HOME/etc/log.xsl file contains the following line Maybe tweaking a bi

RE: Setting log level of the XmlLogger

2005-04-13 Thread Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)
this might help a bit: ant -logger org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger -verbose -logfile log.xml HTH Luis -Original Message- From: Ninju Bohra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:05 PM To: Ant Users Group Subject: Setting log level of the XmlLogger Hello all, This

Setting log level of the XmlLogger

2005-04-13 Thread Ninju Bohra
Hello all, This is a question of how ANT is used by the CruiseControl project (some cross-team synergy here, yea!!). If you are not using CruiseControl and/ANT this message may not be very useful (but still educational :-) ) When CruiseControl kicks off my ant build.xml file, I set the useLo

RE: api ref doc

2005-04-13 Thread Conelly, Luis (GE Energy, Non GE, GENE)
I was browsing through my local installation and I found them on /docs/manual/api/index.html however, I was looking on the [apache-ant-1.6.2-src.zip] file and this directory doesn't exists within that packed file; then, I dug on the [apache-ant-1.6.2-bin.zip] file and voila! the /api/ directo

RE: classpath for custom Ant tasks

2005-04-13 Thread Rainer Noack
Michael, Some times ago I wrote a task for ant. This task has a report functionality which gives you the information you want and some more possibilities to solve classpath-related problems. There is a chance that it will be released in Ant 1.7. (see http://wiki.apache.org/ant/Ant17/Planning). Y

RE: classpath for custom Ant tasks

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Pelz Sherman
Thanks, Rainer. All I can tell you is the only way I can get my task to work is by adding the necessary entries to my System $CLASSPATH. I'll check again, but I'm pretty darn sure the classpath entries in my are correct. Is there any way to print out the "special" classpath being used by an ant

Re: api ref doc

2005-04-13 Thread Wascally Wabbit
Luke, for Ant APIs try these: 1) APIs from distrib at: http://antxtras.org/apis/thirdparty/ant/manual/api/ 2) Massaged variant at JDocs (a JavaLobby site thingy): http://www.jdocs.com/ant/1.6.2/api/index.html At 08:50 PM 4/12/2005, you wrote: Hi, I've just subscribed to this list :-) I'm look

Re: Quotations in a property get corrupted when passed as an arg

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:18 AM, Conor MacNeill wrote: There is not much Ant can do here - there is no real way for it to pass an argument that has quotes and spaces. How do you even do that yourself at the command line? Huh?! That's not even a problem... echo \"foo\" ls 'foo bar' — 

bug in ant 1.6.3 beta1?

2005-04-13 Thread Greg Gimler
Hi, This is probably the wrong forum to submit a bug for ant so I'll apologize in advance and hope that someone can redirect me to a more approrpriate place to discuss bugs. I've noticed a subtle bug (I think it's a bug anyways) in the way ant 1.6.3 now forks off java processes. I've compared th

RE: java.lang.NullPointerException, launch.Locator.getLocationURLs

2005-04-13 Thread Radha Sangal
Check your settings again. c> echo %ANT_HOME% c> echo %CLASSPATH% c> echo %PATH% all these should point to the dir where you want them to be. Its not finding ant/bin dir ... u will get through it, don't worry :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: W

java.lang.NullPointerException, launch.Locator.getLocationURLs

2005-04-13 Thread mikfaretta
please help me if you can or have sorted already my same problem with ant. Following instructions on the installation manual, I do all things described in installation but not able to build ant since the build -Ddist.dir=3D ain_Ant_distribution> dist command has the following response: access den

Re: Quotations in a property get corrupted when passed as an arg

2005-04-13 Thread Conor MacNeill
Oski Wee wrote: James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: James, thanks for your suggestion. I tried it, and it produces the same behavior as Namely, the actual argument Ant passes is "argument that has a literal " as part of its value", including the surround quotations. There is not much Ant

java.lang.NullPointerException, launch.Locator.getLocationURLs

2005-04-13 Thread mikfaretta
please help me if you can or have sorted already my same problem with ant. Following instructions on the installation manual, I do all things described in installation but not able to build ant since the build -Ddist.dir=3D ain_Ant_distribution> dist command has the following response: access den

Re: Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hello, the following untested snippet might help you. basename is ${basename} An easier way will be if there is a task which compares two filesets and returns a list with the out-of-date files, so tha

Re: AW: Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Maybe instead of would work. It's also a task from ant-contrib, it's a enhanced version of Huditsch Roman wrote: Hi, Actually, I am already trying to go this way, but I am struggling with the comparison since the names of my source files vary from my target files (please see my former po

AW: Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
Hi, Actually, I am already trying to go this way, but I am struggling with the comparison since the names of my source files vary from my target files (please see my former post) Thanks for the help! wbr, Roman > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Nicolas Vervelle [mailto:[EMA

Re: Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Nicolas Vervelle
Hi, Maybe you could try using tasks from ant-contrib project at sourceforge. I was thinking of something like: Huditsch Roman wrote: Hi, Thanks for the snippet! I found out that you can reset a property. What I want to do is quite simple (although unachieva

AW: Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
I forgot to mention that the files in the "target" directory have other endings that those in "source" e.g. a.xml => a_1.xml b.xml => b_2.xml Is there any kind of substring function? wbr, Roman > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Huditsch Roman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Mit

Copiing newer files to a directory [was: using file names]

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
Hi, Thanks for the snippet! I found out that you can reset a property. What I want to do is quite simple (although unachievable for me): I would like to copy all files from a directory "source", which are newer to those in "result", to an own directory "input". So, source/a.xml needs to be c

Re: AW: [Maybe spam] Re: using file names

2005-04-13 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Hello, I am not sure if this will do your job, but here is a working snippet. basename is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here we bump in the following issue: ant properties are immutable so if we use basename in the following way the first iteration of will set a property named

RE: Quotations in a property get corrupted when passed as an arg

2005-04-13 Thread Oski Wee
James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: James, thanks for your suggestion. I tried it, and it produces the same behavior as Namely, the actual argument Ant passes is "argument that has a literal " as part of its value", including the surround quotations. So, if I do an echo for each variable

AW: [Maybe spam] Re: using file names

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
Ah, I see. But how can I incorporate it into an statement? I would like to test @{file} againt the same basename within the "result" directory I tried it first with "result/@{file}" which gave me "result/c:\Programme\test.xml". I also tried

Re: using file names

2005-04-13 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Huditsch, You can use task[1]. HTH Ivan [1]http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/basename.html --- Huditsch Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > After using > > > > > > > @{file} gives me the "complete" file name inlcuding > directory > informat

using file names

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
Hi, After using @{file} gives me the "complete" file name inlcuding directory information. How can I pick just the file name itself (leaving out all the directory structure)? wbr, Roman

RE: classpath for custom Ant tasks

2005-04-13 Thread Rainer Noack
Michael, Java.class.path allways shows the System classpath (i.e. typically the one you define via $CLASSPATH plus ant/lib). If you define a classpath in a , a "special" classloader is created for your task. In "normal" situations this should work as expected. An ant-speciality: If an classpath ent

AW: AW: Converting new or changed files with an batch file called from within ant

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
Found out that I need to use since otherwise is not supported. This works fine, but I still have problems with the transformation, since there seems to be a mixup of input files and output directories for Saxon... It seems that the macro is also expecting a directory as input, but getting a

AW: AW: Converting new or changed files with an batch file called from within ant

2005-04-13 Thread Huditsch Roman
Hi Jim, I just tried to get adapt my build file to your suggestions, but unfortunately I failedagain It seems that my antcontrib.jar can be found, but the command is unknown : C:\ANT-TEST\produktion.xml:80: Could not create task or type of type: for. Ant could not find the task or a cla

RE: Quotations in a property get corrupted when passed as an arg

2005-04-13 Thread James Abley
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 12:36, Oski Wee wrote: > >temp.cmd argument^ that^ has^ a^ literal^ ^"^ as^ part^ of^ its^ value > > > >The above is properly treated as 1 argument. > > Actually, turns out that the ^ does not even work from the command prompt. > > I guess I can try doing this: > temp.cmd "a

Re: classpath for custom Ant tasks

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Pelz Sherman
Thanks, I tried this but it doesn't seem to help. By printing out System.getProperty("java.class.path") from within my task, it seems that the taskdef classpath argument isn't picking up the values I put in there. The only way I can seem to effect changes to the classpath of the running task is by