Hi!
I like the possibility to reference paths and patternsets in Ant - it makes
it easy to reuse many common data that would otherwise be redundant. But now
I have found a situation where I would REEALLY like the possibility to reuse
a group of <fileset>'s is this possible ?
My usecase is that in one scenario I wan't to use <copy> and in another I
want to use <jar> on the same set of filesets.
Current usage:
<copy todir="build/application.ear">
<!-- The other modules contribution -->
<fileset dir="../client/build/hotlib" includes="client.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../gui/build/hotlib" includes="gui.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../model/build/hotlib" includes="model.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../util/build/hotlib" includes="util.jar/**/*"/>
...
<!-- The needed test code -->
<fileset dir="${module.hotlib.dir}" includes="tests.jar/**/*"/>
<!-- Configuration and additonal jars -->
<fileset dir="${module.etc.dir}/deploy1" includes="META-INF/*.xml"/>
<fileset dir="${junit.home}" includes="junit.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${hsqldb.home}/lib" includes="hsqldb.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${commons-collections.home}"
includes="commons-collections.jar"/>
...
</copy>
<jar jarfile="${module.earfile}">
<!-- The other modules contribution -->
<fileset dir="../client/build/hotlib" includes="client.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../gui/build/hotlib" includes="gui.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../model/build/hotlib" includes="model.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../util/build/hotlib" includes="util.jar/**/*"/>
...
<!-- The needed test code -->
<fileset dir="${module.hotlib.dir}" includes="tests.jar/**/*"/>
<!-- Configuration and additonal jars -->
<fileset dir="${module.etc.dir}/deploy1" includes="META-INF/*.xml"/>
<fileset dir="${junit.home}" includes="junit.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${hsqldb.home}/lib" includes="hsqldb.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${commons-collections.home}"
includes="commons-collections.jar"/>
...
</jar>
As you can see the filesets in these tasks are EXACTLY the same, and I
cannot use patternsets as the basedir are not the same for all filesets ;(
And if something changes in the set one always forget to update the one or
the other.
It would be nice to just write:
<filesetgroup id="alljars">
<!-- The other modules contribution -->
<fileset dir="../client/build/hotlib" includes="client.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../gui/build/hotlib" includes="gui.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../model/build/hotlib" includes="model.jar/**/*"/>
<fileset dir="../util/build/hotlib" includes="util.jar/**/*"/>
...
<!-- The needed test code -->
<fileset dir="${module.hotlib.dir}" includes="tests.jar/**/*"/>
<!-- Configuration and additonal jars -->
<fileset dir="${module.etc.dir}/deploy1" includes="META-INF/*.xml"/>
<fileset dir="${junit.home}" includes="junit.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${hsqldb.home}/lib" includes="hsqldb.jar"/>
<fileset dir="${commons-collections.home}"
includes="commons-collections.jar"/>
...
</filesetgroup>
<copy todir="build/application.ear">
<filesetgroup refid="alljars">
</copy>
<jar jarfile="${module.earfile}">
<filesetgroup refid="alljars">
</jar>
Or is there something similar/better in the current Ant ?
/max
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