How can I change a config file variable using ant build? - windows

I'm using Jboss 4/5 and have some .war .properties files with default configuration settings
I want to update these settings using information from the windows xp environment variables.
${env} in ant

Import enviroment variables before including your property file:
build.xml file:
<target name="build">
<!-- load enviroment properties -->
<property environment="env" />
<property file="test.properties" />
<echo>test: ${test}</echo>
</target>
test.properties file:
test = ${env.TEMP}

I needed to up the build number in several files. Since I needed to keep the formatting of the file as well as the comments, I used replaceregexp. Be careful when writing your regular expressions that you limit the expression to only find the instances that you care about.
<replaceregexp
file="${dir.project}/build.properties"
match="(build\.number[ \t]*=).*"
replace="\1${build.number}"
flags="g"
/>

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How to include jar in ant build from pom.xml maven dependency

I want to include jars that is imported using pom.xml in ant build. My project configuration is complicated. This is build.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="test" default="help" >
<!--
~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
~ See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
~ information regarding copyright ownership.
~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
~
~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
~
~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
~ limitations under the License.
-->
<!-- The local.properties file is created and updated by the 'android' tool.
It contains the path to the SDK. It should *NOT* be checked into
Version Control Systems. -->
<property file="local.properties" />
<!-- The ant.properties file can be created by you. It is only edited by the
'android' tool to add properties to it.
This is the place to change some Ant specific build properties.
Here are some properties you may want to change/update:
source.dir
The name of the source directory. Default is 'src'.
out.diran
The name of the output directory. Default is 'bin'.
For other overridable properties, look at the beginning of the rules
files in the SDK, at tools/ant/build.xml
Properties related to the SDK location or the project target should
be updated using the 'android' tool with the 'update' action.
This file is an integral part of the build system for your
application and should be checked into Version Control Systems.
-->
<property file="ant.properties" />
<!-- if sdk.dir was not set from one of the property file, then
get it from the ANDROID_HOME env var.
This must be done before we load project.properties since
the proguard config can use sdk.dir -->
<property environment="env" />
<condition property="sdk.dir" value="${env.ANDROID_HOME}">
<isset property="env.ANDROID_HOME" />
</condition>
<!-- The project.properties file is created and updated by the 'android'
tool, as well as ADT.
This contains project specific properties such as project target, and library
dependencies. Lower level build properties are stored in ant.properties
(or in .classpath for Eclipse projects).
This file is an integral part of the build system for your
application and should be checked into Version Control Systems. -->
<loadproperties srcFile="project.properties" />
<!-- quick check on sdk.dir -->
<fail
message="sdk.dir is missing. Make sure to generate local.properties using 'android update project' or to inject it through the ANDROID_HOME environment variable."
unless="sdk.dir"
/>
<!--
Import per project custom build rules if present at the root of the project.
This is the place to put custom intermediary targets such as:
-pre-build
-pre-compile
-post-compile (This is typically used for code obfuscation.
Compiled code location: ${out.classes.absolute.dir}
If this is not done in place, override ${out.dex.input.absolute.dir})
-post-package
-post-build
-pre-clean
-->
<import file="custom_rules.xml" optional="true" />
<!-- Import the actual build file.
To customize existing targets, there are two options:
- Customize only one target:
- copy/paste the target into this file, *before* the
<import> task.
- customize it to your needs.
- Customize the whole content of build.xml
- copy/paste the content of the rules files (minus the top node)
into this file, replacing the <import> task.
- customize to your needs.
***********************
****** IMPORTANT ******
***********************
In all cases you must update the value of version-tag below to read 'custom' instead of an integer,
in order to avoid having your file be overridden by tools such as "android update project"
-->
<!-- version-tag: VERSION_TAG -->
<property name="java.target" value="1.7" />
<property name="java.source" value="1.7" />
<import file="${sdk.dir}/tools/ant/uibuild.xml" />
</project>
I can build using both ant and maven . However, i need jar file in bin folder. Therefore, i have to use ant build. But it does not see maven dependencies. How can i add jars to ant build ?
Thanks
EDIT: compiles in Eclipse. Eclipse sees maven dependencies however IntelliJ fails. I guess it is a config problem.

How to exclude single files when using MSBuild Scanner

We are using the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild (1.1.0.0) and have a solution containing multiple projects.
There is a SonarQube.Analysis.xml in the solution root folder which we supply to the scanners cli.
<SonarQubeAnalysisProperties xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.sonarsource.com/msbuild/integration/2015/1">
<Property Name="sonar.cs.opencover.reportsPaths">output/nunit-coverage.xml</Property>
<Property Name="sonar.cs.nunit.reportsPaths">output/nunit-result.xml</Property>
<Property Name="sonar.exclusions">Project1/Migrations/*</Property>
<Property Name="sonar.coverage.exclusions">Project1/Migrations/*</Property>
</SonarQubeAnalysisProperties>
Now the problem is: Project1/Migrations/* seems not to get excluded because the Base dir is set to .../Project1 during the scan. The same happens for all other projects in the solution. The result is that .../Project1/Project1/Migrations/* is an unknown path.
So what is the recommended way to exclude a whole directory from coverage and sourcecode analytics when using MSBuild Scanner?
Try to put the exclusions in the project file (.csproj) itself, something like:
<ItemGroup>
<SonarQubeSetting Include="sonar.exclusions">
<Value>**/Migrations/*</Value>
</SonarQubeSetting>
</ItemGroup>
See Appendix 2: Configuring the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild.

When causing a makefile to change directory and run ant in that new directory error "JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly"

Even if you have Java and/or ant installed through the windows installers, you still need to set your environment variables. Make sure you are linking your java to a JDK rather than a JRE, my guess as a newbie is that when you are compiling your own code you should always use the JDK as it has all the tools you need.
Original post:
This is all happening on Windows. I call make. It checks out a "code" folder from svn into the directory that makefile is in. Inside "code", is a build.xml. I want my makefile to change to that directory and then run ant on it. I am getting the error in my command prompt:
C:\Users\Ryan\Desktop\maketest>make
svn co (address removed)
Checked out revision 107.
cd code; ant clean compile jar run
uname: not found
basename: not found
dirname: not found
which: not found
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute java
make: *** [runant] Error 1
I checked here http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/make-3.79/html_chapter/make_5.html#SEC46 and it seems that this should be do-able in my makefile:
runant:
cd code; ant clean compile jar run
as this will open the command in a subshell but it will also run ant in that subshell.
This all works fine if I manually change into the code folder and run ant. I only get this JAVA_HOME not defined correctly error when I try to do this all from a single makefile.
makefile:
commands = checkoutcode checkoutdocs runant
svnCode = https://version-control.adelaide.edu.au/svn/SEPADL15S2UG7/code/
svnDocs = https://version-control.adelaide.edu.au/svn/SEPADL15S2UG7/updateDocs
ifdef version
REVISION = -r$(version)
endif
all: full
full: checkoutcode checkoutdocs runant
# ensure you use a single tab for the commands being run under that name
checkoutcode:
svn co $(svnCode) $(REVISION)
checkoutdocs:
svn co $(svnDocs) $(REVISION)
#change directory into the code folder and compile the code
runant:
cd code; ant clean compile jar run
build.xml:
<project>
<!-- add some property names to be referenced later. first one is lib folder to hold all libraries -->
<property name="lib.dir" value="lib"/>
<!-- images directory used to compile with the images and also add them to the jar -->
<property name="src/images.dir" value="images"/>
<!-- ensure the classpath can see all classes in the lib folder by adding **/*.jar -->
<path id="classpath">
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar"/>
</path>
<!-- "Target" attribute is what we will write as a parameter to ant in the command prompt or terminal -->
<!-- eg. "ant clean" will run the commands inside the target tags, which is just to delete the directory
"build" -->
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="build"/>
<echo message="Cleaned "/>
</target>
<!-- compile command. creates a directory for the classes to be stored in, instead of the root folder
and then compiles everything in the src folder, using the classpath properties we set earlier -->
<target name="compile">
<mkdir dir="build/classes"/>
<javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="src" destdir="build/classes" classpathref="classpath"/>
<echo message="Compiled "/>
</target>
<!-- jar command. this creates an executable jar file called Robot.jar which can run the program in full.
it uses the images and it uses the lejos libraries and embeds them into the jar -->
<target name="jar">
<jar destfile="Robot.jar" basedir="build/classes">
<fileset dir="src/images" />
<manifest>
<attribute name="Main-Class" value="Main"/>
</manifest>
<!-- this line adds everything in the lib folder to the classes being added to the jar,
ie. the lejos classes ev3 and pc -->
<zipgroupfileset dir="${lib.dir}" includes="**/*.jar" />
</jar>
<echo message="Created JAR "/>
</target>
<!-- run command. runs the program. Running the program in the command prompt or terminal is good
because it allows you to see any exceptions as they happen, rather than hiding them in eclipse -->
<target name="run">
<java jar="Robot.jar" fork="true"/>
<echo message="Run "/>
</target>
</project>
I am required to run this on different machines without any extra configuration performed, and will not be able to confirm the location of Java on those machines - the only guarantee I will get is that Java is installed and the environment variables work.
Just answering to allow you to mark as solved.
Even if you have installed Java with the oracle installer, you still need to create environements variables.
Even if you have Java and/or ant installed through the windows installers, you still need to set your environment variables. Make sure you are linking your java to a JDK rather than a JRE, my guess as a newbie is that when you are compiling your own code you should always use the JDK as it has all the tools you need.

Using SlowCheetah's app.config transformations with Setup projects

I'm using the SlowCheetah XML Transforms extension to handle web.config-like transformations with app.config. That part works great.
I added a setup project and configured it to include the project output of the first project. I noticed that when I ran the installer, it installed the non-transformed app.config. Looking at the Primary output Outputs (say that 10 times fast), I noticed that its finding the binary in Project\bin\Debug\Project.exe, but Project.exe.config comes from Project\app.config instead of Project\bin\Debug\Project.exe.config.
I could exclude app.config from the Primary output, and hard-code the path to a specific configuration's app.config (Project\bin\Debug\Project.exe.config), but then I'd get the same app.config regardless of which configuration I used to build it.
Is there a workaround for getting the appropriate transformed app.config in a Setup project?
Hi we are planning on releasing a new version which has ClickOnce support in the next few days. If you need a build of the add in before than which has the fix please contact me and I can get that out to you.
This may not be exactly the answer you're looking for but I have previously wrestled with how to get the correct app.config file into a setup project. I have a TFSBuild.proj msbuild file that uses transforms. The SlowCheetah transforms I think use the same msbuild task but I may be incorrect. SlowCheetah certainly provides a more useful user experience when working with transform files. My build file takes a slightly different approach. At the end of the automated build I wanted to generate installers for each of the target deployment environments. I use a number of msbuild extensions, including the TransformXml build task - not all required for the following but FWIW these are the imports:
<!-- import extensions -->
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\ExtensionPack\MSBuild.ExtensionPack.tasks"/>
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets"/>
<UsingTask TaskName="TransformXml"
AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll"/>
I have the following environments defined:
<ItemGroup>
<!-- target deployment environments -->
<Configs Include="Prod" />
<Configs Include="Staging" />
<Configs Include="Test" />
</ItemGroup>
Then the standard AfterCompileSolution target contains a call to the target that generates the installer for each environment:
<Target Name="AfterCompileSolution">
<!-- Create installers for target deployment environments -->
<CallTarget Targets="MyProject" />
</Target>
<Target Name="MyProject" Outputs="%(Configs.Identity)">
<ItemGroup>
<MyProjectTempConfig Include="$(SolutionRoot)\MyProjectService\Temp.config" />
<MyProjectConfigFrom Include="$(SolutionRoot)\MyProjectService\App.%(Configs.Identity).config" />
<MyProjectConfigTo Include="$(SolutionRoot)\MyProjectService\App.config">
<Attributes>ReadOnly</Attributes>
</MyProjectConfigTo>
</ItemGroup>
<Message Text="MyProject - Target environment: %(Configs.Identity)" />
<!-- transform app.config using appropriate -->
<Copy SourceFiles="#(MyProjectConfigTo)"
DestinationFiles="#(MyProjectTempConfig)"
OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true"
ContinueOnError="true"
Condition="!Exists(#(MyProjectTempConfig))"/>
<File TaskAction="RemoveAttributes" Files="#(MyProjectConfigTo)"/>
<TransformXml Source="#(MyProjectTempConfig)"
Transform="#(MyProjectConfigFrom)"
Destination="#(MyProjectConfigTo)" />
<!-- run setup -->
<Exec Command=""$(ProgramFiles)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv" "$(SolutionRoot)\MyProject.sln" /build Release /project MyProjectService.Setup"/>
<!-- rename output for target deployment environment -->
<Copy SourceFiles="$(SolutionRoot)\MyProjectService.Setup\Release\MyProjectService.msi"
DestinationFiles="$(OutDir)\%(Configs.Identity)_MyProjectService.msi"
OverwriteReadOnlyFiles="true"
ContinueOnError="true"/>
</Target>

Ignoring system environment variables in ant

I set this property in my build.xml script of ant to ignore the system classpath during build, but ant still picks up the system classpath in my java call and merges it with my classpath specified in the build script.
<property name="build.sysclasspath" value="ignore" />
<path id="classpath">
<pathelement path="${buildDir}/classes" />
<fileset dir="${prjdir}">
<include name="lib/*.jar"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<java classname="com.ibm.biginsights.fs.gpfs.LoggingInjector" failonerror="true">
<classpath refid="classpath" />
</java>
If I unset the $CLASSPATH environment variable before calling ant everything works fine. What's the problem?
ANT is itself a java program so it's difficult to prevent tasks from using the same system classpath.
To properly isolate your java build, I'd recommend to setting the following attributes on the javac task:
<javac .... includeAntRuntime="false" includeAntRuntime="false" ...
Similarily, when running java programs, set the fork attribute so that it runs in another VM:
<java ...fork="true" classpathref="class.path.that.i.control"...
This property, AFAIK, is a system property that must be passed to ant (using ant -Dbuild.sysclasspath=ignore). But unsetting the CLASSPATH is probably as easy.
The main problam, IMO, is to use the CLASSPATH environment variable in the first place. I find it preferrable to always use the -cp or -jar option whan using Java, and not to rely on the system CLASSPATH. As soon as you have two Java programs that both rely on the system CLASSPATH, there is a risk of a clash between the dependencies of these two programs.

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