Ta,
Have been able to do this now using a custom task. However this was an
extremely useful exercise in how to do things like this.
Regards
Krys
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Perevalov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Prompt
>
> I do all my development on windows, for unix "con" should be replaced on
> "/dev/stdin".
> You can hardcode this :) or just add a little code snippet to make this
> target platform independent (I didn't test it on unix, so probably you
have
> to test it a little bit):
>
>
> //get os name
> var os = project.getProperty("os.name");
> var console;
>
> //select appropriate input
> if(os.charAt(0) == 'W' || os.charAt(0) == 'w'){
> console = "con";
> }else{
> console = "/dev/stdin";
> }
>
> //get standart input stream
> var stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
> FileInputStream(console)));
>
> Just add this code to the target and remove duplicate line where new
> BufferedReader is created.
>
> Hope this help.
>
> Paul Perevalov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krystan Honour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:20 AM
> To: Ant Users List
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Prompt
>
>
> Hi,
>
> this is extremely useful. Only one problem I ran this successfully under
> windows which prompted for a password that I use to sign my jars with and
> signed it. When I tried to use the same script under linux I get a file
not
> found exception because it can't find the file "con" ? which is asked for
> in
> the stream handler. Any ideas ?
>
> Krys
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Perevalov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Prompt
>
>
> >
> > You have to add in ant\lib directory bsf.jar from
> > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/bsf for script task
> > and js.jar from http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/download.html for
javascript
> > support.
> >
> > Paul Perevalov
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Claassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:52 PM
> > To: Ant Users List
> > Subject: RE: Prompt
> >
> >
> > Thanks! It will take me a while to get through all this, but this
sounds
> > like just the ticket. Will ant run this just by itself, or do I need
> > something to help it with the JavaScript? I tried in using the ant1.3
> that
> > is bundled in with netbeans 3.2.1 and it didn't work. Maybe the
optional
> > tasks are not included by default.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Perevalov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:16 PM
> > > To: Ant Users List
> > > Subject: RE: Prompt
> > >
> > >
> > > I wrote my own target which uses javascript to get some user input
into
> > > properties and then run another tagets.
> > > You can place this target in common build file and then include it
main
> > > build file.
> > > Here is the target itself, after this target you can find example
> > > how to use
> > > it.
> > >
> > > <target name="doTargetWithUserInput" description="Executes target
> > > where some
> > > parameters provided by user from kbd.">
> > > <script language="javascript"> <![CDATA[
> > > importPackage(Packages.java.lang);
> > > importPackage(Packages.java.io);
> > > project = doTargetWithUserInput.getProject();
> > > //get comma separated user prompts
> > > var prompts = project.getProperty("prompts");
> > > //get comma separated user properties which should be set
> > > var properties = project.getProperty("properties");
> > > //get comma separated targets to be executed
> > > var targets = project.getProperty("targets");
> > >
> > > //get standart input stream
> > > var stdin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new
> > > FileInputStream("con")));
> > >
> > > //split prompts,properties and targets to arrays
> > > var arrPrompts = Split(String(prompts),",");
> > > var arrProperties = Split(String(properties),",");
> > > var arrTargets = Split(String(targets),",");
> > >
> > > //fail if number of properties does not match to number of prompts
> > > if(arrPrompts.length != arrProperties.length){
> > > fail = project.createTask("fail");
> > > fail.setMessage("Number of prompts does not match to the number of
> > > properties.");
> > > fail.execute();
> > > }
> > >
> > > //get value for each property from user by showing corresponding
> prompt
> > > var temp = "";
> > > for (var i = 0; i < arrPrompts.length; i++){
> > > System.out.println(arrPrompts[i]);
> > > temp = stdin.readLine();
> > > project.setProperty(arrProperties[i],temp);
> > > }
> > >
> > > //execute each target which now will have access to new properties
> > > for (var j = 0; j < arrTargets.length; j++){
> > > project.executeTarget(arrTargets[j]);
> > > }
> > >
> > > function Split(Expression, Delimiter)
> > > {
> > > var temp = Expression;
> > > var a, b = 0;
> > > var array = new Array();
> > >
> > > if (Delimiter.length == 0)
> > > {
> > > array[0] = Expression;
> > > return (array);
> > > }
> > >
> > > if (Expression.length == '')
> > > {
> > > array[0] = Expression;
> > > return (array);
> > > }
> > >
> > > Delimiter = Delimiter.charAt(0);
> > >
> > > for (var i = 0; i < Expression.length; i++)
> > > {
> > > a = temp.indexOf(Delimiter);
> > > if (a == -1)
> > > {
> > > array[i] = temp;
> > > break;
> > > }
> > > else
> > > {
> > > b = (b + a) + 1;
> > > var temp2 = temp.substring(0, a);
> > > array[i] = temp2;
> > > temp = Expression.substr(b,
> > > Expression.length - temp2.length);
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > return (array);
> > > }
> > >
> > > ]]></script>
> > > </target>
> > >
> > > Then you can use this target to get some user input and run another
> > > target(s).
> > >
> > > <antcall target="doTargetWithUserInput">
> > > <param name="prompts" value="Enter user ID:,Enter user password:"/>
> > > <param name="properties" value="user,pwd"/>
> > > <param name="targets" value="doSomething"/>
> > > </antcall>
> > >
> > > <target name="doSomething" description="Do something with user input">
> > > <echo message="User id: ${user}, password : ${pwd}"/>
> > > </target>
> > >
> > > Hope this help.
> > >
> > > Paul Perevalov
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Claassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:51 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Prompt
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there any way to prompt for information during a script
> > > (without writing
> > > a custom task)? When I compile my code for release, we tag it in CVS.
> > We
> > > then use this tag name in the code to generate the version numbers.
> > >
> > > What I would like to do is have ant prompt me for a tag and a
> > > branch. Then
> > > it could automatically check out the correct tagged version of the
> files
> > > that contain the $Name$, compile it (with the $Name$ expanded),
> > > build jars,
> > > and then checkout the head of the branch again so I am where I left
> off.
> > >
> > > I could do this with command line parameters as well, but using
> > > it this way
> > > in netbeans is a little less convenient.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > > ---------------------
> > > Mark Claassen
> > > Donnell Systems, Inc.
> > > 300 S. St. Louis Blvd. Ste. 203
> > > South Bend, IN 46617
> > > E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Voice: (219)232-3784
> > > Fax: (219)232-4014
> > >
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