Ant copy with fileset

[Micale Raj]

Hi All,

I want to copy files using fileset like following,

      <fileset id="test">
	 <include name="commons-lang-2.1.jar"/>
      </fileset>
      
     <target name="def">
	<copy todir="jar/">
		<fileset dir="target/layout/lib">
			<exclude refid="test"/>
	       </fileset>
      </copy>
   </target>

(This code don't work.)

In the copy task I want to include/exclude previously defined fileset. How to do this ?

Thanks !

[Peter Johnson]

You can't - a fileset is evaluated at the time it is encountered ans a collection of files is built at that time.

What you want, on the other hand, is to create a list of file names and apply that name in multiple locations. Something like this should work:

<property name="test.jars" value="commons-lang-2.1.jar"/>

  <target name="def">  
    <copy todir="jar/">  
      <fileset dir="target/layout/lib">  
        <exclude name="${test.jars}"/>  
      </fileset>  
    </copy>  
  </target>  

Note that "exclude" allows a comma-separated list of file name patterns, so you specific multiple JARs.

[Micale Raj]

Thank you very much Peter. Your post helped me resolve the problem. Thanks again !