Re: Programmatically create a fileset and reference

> Hi All,
>
> I have created dozen of custom tasks before, but find myself
> struggling with this one. I wish to create a task that does the
> following:
>
> 1.  Accepts a file attribute to represent the absolute path of a file
> contains comma separated absolute paths.
>    a.  this file name will be read in, parsed and each file found will
> be added to a fileset object, which in term is added to a resources
> object.
> 2.  Accepts a id property
>    a.  this id will be the id of the resource created in step 1a.
>
> So essentially I want...
>
>    <csvtofileset file="csv.file.name" id="some.id.name">
>
> I am unclear on how to add the fileset i create in my code to the
> project.  Additionally I am unsure of how to assign this an 'id' that
> I can reference elsewhere.  Basically what I want to be able to do is
> create a collection of files on the fly which I can reference on the
> fly.   Essentially in the following snippet, the resources element
> would be replaced by my new task element
>
> <project name="test" basedir="." default="test">
>
>   <!-- old -->
>    <resources id="fsd">
>         <fileset file="c:\temp\db2_test\db2jcc.jar" />          
> <fileset file="c:\temp\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar" />      
> </resources>
>    <!-- old -->
>
>    <!-- new -->
>           <csvtofileset file="csv.file.name" id="fsd">
>    <!-- new -->
>
>   <target name="test">
>          <copy toDir="c:\temp\ failonerror="true">
>             <resources refid="fsd"/>
>          </copy>
>   </target>
> </project>
>
>
> Any help at all would be appreciated.
>
>
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