Path Convert tag

[Muhammad Ahsan]

I am writing ant scripts which configure certain batch files.
I am using websphere ant (the version of ant which comes with websphere)
1.5.2

Most of my ant scripts take parameters ( mostly classpath) from the
properties file (saad.properties)

How can edit the classpath in a batch file/text file from ant?

I read Path Convert tag do that. I dont know how to implement it?

please give an working exmaple.

Saad Ahsan

[Carol Enderlin]

Is your classpath in your properties file complete or do you need to modify it? Or build it in the build file?

I'm not really sure what you need to accomplish, but you wanted an example using path convert tag. I used it with a copy task to take a path that was specified and "build-converted" in the build.xml (maybe you are wanting to just get it from the properties file?) and put it into a .bat file.

Your mileage may vary, I was using 1.6.2. I used the example code for Copy and PathConvert from Ant Manual.

my build-convert.xml

 
<project name="convert path" default="all">
 
<target name="init" >
   <path id="wl.path">
      <pathelement location="lib/weblogicaux.jar"/>
      <pathelement location="classes"/>
      <pathelement location="mssqlserver4/classes"/>
      <pathelement location="c:\winnt\System32"/>
    </path>
    
    <pathconvert targetos="windows" property="wl.path.windows" refid="wl.path"/>
    <echo> "${wl.path.windows}" 
    </echo>   
   
</target>
 
<target name="all" depends="init" >
  <filter token="path" value="${wl.path.windows}"/>
    <copy todir="build" filtering="true">
      <fileset dir="." includes="*.bat"/>
    </copy>
 </target> 
 
</project> 
 
C:\_Work\java>ant -f build-convert.xml
Buildfile: build-convert.xml
 
init:
     [echo]  "C:\_Work\java\lib\weblogicaux.jar;C:\_Work\java\classes;C:\_Work\java\mssqlserver4\classes;C:\winnt\System32"
     [echo]
 
all:
     [copy] Copying 2 files to C:\_Work\java\build
 
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds
C:\_Work\java>ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.6.2 compiled on July 16 2004
C:\_Work\java>
 
 

Original .bat file:

  
@rem
@rem
@rem
 
set path=@path@

modified .bat file

@rem
@rem
@rem
 
set path=C:\_Work\java\lib\weblogicaux.jar;C:\_Work\java\classes;C:\_Work\java\mssqlserver4\classes;C:\winnt\System32