If the file is not located in the local project (ie, it's located in
the parent), then you can't pass the location, because there's no
guarantee that location will exist at all.
What is the ant-task attempting to find? Another ant file? An xml
file? A properties file? If so, then you can pass in the properties
through the Pom, rather than through a file, maybe.
If it's a jar, or some other thing built in the parent, or in some
other project, then the best way to handle it is to abstract out that
jar or resource into its own project, so that it is the artifact
produced. You can then pull in that artifact using maven ant tasks
and depend on it.
The other way to go, which is not great, but quick & dirty, would be
to remove all child projects from continuum, and just act on the
parent, and remove the --non-recursive param so it will build the
whole thing. Unfortunately this means that all will be built
whenever any of it will be built. It also doesn't address the fact
that you're depending on things that shouldn't be depended on -
you're just working around continuum's strict requirement that this
be so.
But what, specifically, is the kind of file you're locating with the
variable, and how are you using it? That might help suggest an
alternative approach.
christian.
On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:41 PM, brad hadfield wrote:
Christian, thanks for your help.
This is a situation where an artifact is not workable... this might
be too much to ask but can you give me an idea how I might use
metadata to solve my problem?
Ultimately I must pass a file location to an Ant task...
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Gruber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 7, 2007 12:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: getting relative paths maven + continuum
Yes - I thought it might be this. You can't do that and expect
continuum to understand it. In fact, continuum checked out your
child projects into their own folders that have no relation to the
parent. There's literally no way to know what to set that property
to.
If you have things in the parent that are necessary to the
children, then you need to make sure they are available to the
children either through metadata, or by being included in an
artifact (jar) that the children have access to.
You haven't "configured things incorrectly" - your project design
is problematic, because it makes the assumption that your folder
structure is constant. With maven, you should not make that
assumption. With continuum, you cannot make that assumption.
Christian.
On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:45 AM, brad hadfield wrote:
Thanks Emmanuel,
I have a property with a path that looks like ${basedir}/../../../
core-parent/trunk/
If I use the variable ${basedir} by running maven from the command
line the location looks like: C:\CIProjects\ProjectsMain\
But when I run the build in Continuum the Maven variable $
{basedir} is
indicated as C:\Continuum\apps\continuum\webapp\WEB-INF\working-
directory\21
Obviously I've configured something incorrectly...
-----Original Message-----
From: Emmanuel Venisse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 7, 2007 11:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: getting relative paths maven + continuum
Continuum doesn't build projects directly. It start maven in the
right
directory then maven do the build and Continuum look at the output
and
the result.
Can you add more details about your problem?
Emmanuel
brad hadfield a écrit :
Hi,
I am a new maven and continuum user. I'm having problems setting a
relative path because when continuum runs maven it interprets
variables such as ${base.dir} differently than when I run maven from
the project directory. I assume this is because continuum starts
maven in a web app working directory. Is there a way to get
continuum to start maven in the project directory?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Brad
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