Re: Programmatically create a fileset and reference

> Not sure that accomplishes what I need to do.  The problem I wish to
> solve is this:
>
> I have a property that equates to this:
>
> <property name="jdbc.jar" value="C:\Documents and
> Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc.jar,C:\Documents and
> Settings\jweber\Desktop\db2_test\db2jcc_license_cu.jar"/>
>
> The value of this property is variable.
>
> I then have a couple of tasks that perform the following:
>
>     <!-- use filelist to copy the files to a temp dir so we can build
> a fileset -->
>      <copy toDir=".tmp_cp" overwrite="true"  failonerror="false">
>         <filelist files="${jdbc.jar}" />
>         <flattenmapper/>
>      </copy>
>
>    <!-- create a referencable path object to be used in sql task -->
>      <path id="sql.cp">
>         <fileset dir=".tmp_cp"/>
>      </path>*
> *
> This all works great (although not so straight forward), until there
> is a space in one of the paths in jdbc.jar property.  If you have
> another approach I'd be willing to try but I dont think your suggest
> will work for this.
> *
>
>
> *
>
> Scot P. Floess wrote:
>> Have you considered using a macrodef and elements?
>>
>> Maybe something like:
>>
>> <macrodef name="my-macro">
>>   <attribute name="id"/>
>>    <element name="includes"/>
>>      <sequential>
>>       <path id="@{id}">
>>          <includes/>
>>       </path>
>>    </sequential>
>> </macrodef>
>>
>> Then you can supply whatever you want in <includes> as long as it
>> adheres to <path> allowances....
>>
>> Jeremy Weber wrote:
>>> 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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