Matthew Inger wrote:
> Fiedler, Raul wrote:
>
>> "yeah, I've been trying to do this too. Is this feature beyond the
>> capabilities of Ant?"
>>
>> I am looking for possibility to define a group of filees (fileset) as a
>> property and perform different task with it.
>> Example jar fileset or delete fileset.
>>
>> Is there another approach to it or maybe add this one to suggestions
>> for ANT
>> 1.5???
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>> Raul
>>
>
> I would try creating the filesets, and assigning them id's. Then you
> could pass
> in the id as a paramter to a function, and do your stuff:
>
> <fileset id="abc" .. >
> ...
> </fileset>
>
> <target name="delete_fileset">
> <delete>
> <fileset refid="${filesetid}" />
> </delete>
> </target>
>
> <target name="test">
> <antcall target="delete_fileset">
> <parameter name="filesetid" value="abc" />
> </antcall>
> </target>
>
>
> I'm not entirely sure this will work. But it's worth a try.
> It all depends on how the refid attribute is processed, and whether
> or not it allows for variable expansion (ie. expanding "${filesetid}"
> into "abc").
>
>
>
by the way, this does work..........
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