[ http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/CACTUS-126?page=comments#action_55347 ] Vincent Massol commented on CACTUS-126: ---------------------------------------
Hi James, Yes, you're right this is a deficiency of tha WAR/JAR Ant tasks as we're directly extending the WAR task. That said, if you were to provide a poatch for this, we would be willing to apply it... :-) Thanks > JarList reference for cactifywar task > ------------------------------------- > > Key: CACTUS-126 > URL: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/CACTUS-126 > Project: Cactus > Type: Wish > Components: Ant Integration > Environment: All platforms > Reporter: James Carpenter > Priority: Minor > > When using the cactifywar ant task one can inject additional libraries into > the cactified war by using the nested lib element. The problem is that there > is no way to inject a whole list of jars by reference. In a more advanced > build design one is likely to use the new ant 1.6 import feature which allows > a build to inherit the majority of its functionality. In such a situation it > is very awkward to have to override the ant task responsible for calling the > cactifywar task just to add a few more libraries. > To be fair this problem is really a deficiency in the Ant War and Jar tasks. > To fix it one will probably want to create a new datatype that supports > mulitple jars. An example usage of the sort of thing I am talking about is > demonstrated below. > <jarlist id="my.jarlist.ref"> > <lib file="somefile.jar"/> > <lib file="someotherfile.jar"/> > </jarlist> > <cactifywar srcfile="${dist.home}/${war.name}" > destfile="${dist.home}/${cactus-war.name}" > mergewebxml="${cactus-web.path}"> > <classes dir="${testbuild.classes.dir}"/> > <jarlist refid="my.jarlist.ref"/> > <servletredirector/> > <servletredirector name="ServletRedirectorSecure" > mapping="/ServletRedirectorSecure" roles="test"/> > <filterredirector mapping="/test/filterRedirector.jsp"/> > </cactifywar> > Such functionality would let one do things like this in the ant task: > <project name="ExampleWebComponent" default="usage" basedir="."> > <import file="../webcomponentbuild.xml"/> > <target name="init.jarlist.refs" depends="init.properties"> > <!-- Compile Classpath --> > <jarlist id="my.jarlist.ref"> > <lib file="somefile.jar"/> > <lib file="someotherfile.jar"/> > </jarlist> > </target> > </project> > There are lots of potential variations on the sort of thing I am describing. > The objective is bury the details of calling the cactifywar task in an > imported ant file and only override the target necessary to set a reference > to a list of jars to pack into the cactified war. > Note: A fileset reference won't work well for the jarlist datatype since all > the jars would then have to be under a single directory. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - If you want more information on JIRA, or have a bug to report see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
