On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Andrew Kinnie wrote: > OK, just to clarify, I am a borderline illiterate when it comes to Ant,
Add Learning Ant to your To Do list.
> in that, I know, mostly and fairly vaguely, that it provides an xml script to
> build apps for deployment.
>
> And how to spell it. I think.
>
> So, just so I understand, you are saying that the first thing I have,
> immediately after my <project name="MyApp" default="build" basedir="."> tag
I'd add it to the target that builds the app, before the woapplication task.
> , I add
>
>> <exec dir=".."
>> executable="svnversion"
>> outputproperty="svn.committed.max"
>> errorproperty="svnversion.error">
>> <arg line="-n"/>
>> </exec>
>
> Then at the bottom of the existing woapplication tag, right after the close
> tag:
>>
>>
>> </woapplication>
>>
>
> I add this:
>
>> <chmod
>> file="${dest.dir}${file.separator}${build.app.name}.woa${file.separator}${build.app.name}"
>> perm="755"/>
>>
>> <!-- This is not set in Eclipse builds to speed things up so we
>> create a default value here indicating this. -->
>> <property name="svn.committed.max" value="unknown eclipse build" />
>>
>> <!-- Add the revision number, date, and time to the Properties file
>> -->
>> <concat destfile="${java.properties.file}" append="true">
>> build.version=${svn.committed.max}
>> build.date=${DSTAMP}
>> build.time=${TSTAMP}
>> </concat>
>> </target>
>
> Then do I need to add or change anything in my properties file?
You need to define java.properties.file
> Clearly my previous
>
>>> public String revisionNumber =
>>> ERXProperties.stringForKey("RevisionNumber");
>>> public String buildNumber = ERXProperties.stringForKey("BuildNumber");
>
>
> won't work with this, so I would use "build.version" "build.date and
> "build.time" as my properties to access the information.
That or rename them in the XML above.
>
> So I now have:
>
> public String buildDate = ERXProperties.stringForKey("build.date");
> public String buildTime = ERXProperties.stringForKey("build.time");
> public String buildVersion =
> ERXProperties.stringForKey("build.version");
>
> and
>
> public String buildVersion(){
> System.out.println("buildVersion " + buildVersion + " and
> buildDate is " + buildDate);
> return buildVersion;
> }
>
> public String buildDate(){
> return buildDate;
> }
>
> public String buildTime(){
> return buildTime;
> }
>
> Correct? Or is there something else I would need? (I ask, because looking
> at it, it would seem that it is supposed to be writing the information to the
> Properties file, but nothing is being added to it, and I am getting empty
> strings)
You will probably need to do some Ant debugging. :-)
<echo>....</echo>
Chuck
>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Andrew Kinnie wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to add an svn commit number to the front page of my basically
>>> headless push app. However, I am apparently doing something stupid and
>>> missing something obvious.
>>>
>>> I added this to the top of the build.xml script for the app (after the
>>> project tag):
>>>
>>> <!-- Write current build and revision #s into Properties file. -->
>>> <target name="updateBuildNumber">
>>>
>>> <exec executable="svnversion" dir="" outputproperty="svn.revision" />
>>> <echo>Revision: ${svn.revision}</echo>
>>> <replaceregexp file="Resources/Properties"
>>> match="RevisionNumber=(.*)"
>>> replace="RevisionNumber=${svn.revision}" />
>>> <property environment="env" />
>>> <echo>Build Number: ${env.BUILD_NUMBER}</echo>
>>> <replaceregexp file="Resources/Properties"
>>> match="BuildNumber=(.*)"
>>> replace="BuildNumber=${env.BUILD_NUMBER}" />
>>> </target>
>>>
>>> I added this to my Properties file for the app (At the top):
>>>
>>> RevisionNumber=x
>>> BuildNumber=x
>>>
>>> However, the script is not substituting, and I am not getting anything
>>> other than "x" with the following code in my Main.java class
>>>
>>> public String revisionNumber =
>>> ERXProperties.stringForKey("RevisionNumber");
>>> public String buildNumber = ERXProperties.stringForKey("BuildNumber");
>>>
>>> public String revisionNumber(){
>>> System.out.println("buildNumber is " + buildNumber + " and
>>> revisionNumber is " + revisionNumber);
>>> return revisionNumber;
>>> }
>>>
>>> What blindingly obvious thing am I missing?
>>>
>>> Andrew
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>
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