----- Original Message -----
From: "Nico Seessle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 16:13
Subject: Re: <available> problem
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <project name="test" default="default" basedir=".">
> <target name="default">
> <available file="" property="yes"/>
> <echo message="${yes}"/>
> </target>
> </project>
>
> results in
>
> Buildfile: build.xml
>
> default:
> [echo] true
>
> BUILD SUCCESSFUL.
>
> Unfortunately there does not seem to be a good solution to this problem.
The
> available-task simply gets handed over file from the "parser" and the
parser
> constructs these files using the "basedir". First solution would be to
pass
> a String to available and let it construct the file itself (failing if the
> passed filename is the empty string); second solution would be to declare
it
> correct and don't change it :-)
I've come across this before, and chose solution two. But you can do a test
for the file being passed in being a directory, which some tasks may opt to
reject. So if <available dir="" > set a property if a directory existed and
and available file="" set something to false as it was really a directory
then you may have a better solution. but perhaps the available file="" test
should raise an error because it was passed a directory, rather than return
false. Tough choice. Again, option two looks nice.
-steve
