I have a git repo with a new Copy task that does not use Ant. It allows us to
determine if anything was really copied (getDidWork() is accurate) and has some
additional features from the current copy task.
This is in the copy branch at git://github.com/sappling/gradle.git
Hans has mentioned that he would like to get away from using Ant so much
internally, so I hope this will be useful.
The syntax changed some:
* it uses include and exclude (singular) instead of the previous includes and
excludes.
* it supports nested CopySpecs instead of the previous map of includes/excludes
per source dir (see javadoc for org.gradle.api.tasks.copy.CopySpec)
* it supports regular expression based renaming
* it supports content filtering using java.io.FilterReader
Some examples:
//basic copy is very similar to previous one
task(mydoc, type:Copy) {
from 'src/main/doc'
into 'build/target/doc'
exclude '**/*.bak'
}
// but each from starts a new CopySpec that inherits from the root one
task(initconfig, type:Copy) {
from('src/main/config') {
include '**\*.properties'
include '**\*.xml'
filter(ReplaceTokens, tokens:[version:'2.3.1'])
}
from('src/main/languages') {
rename 'EN_US_(*.)', '$1'
}
into 'build/target/config'
exclude '**\*.bak', '**\CVS\'
}
I have a few more things I would like to change if you want to use this in 0.7.
I would like to put some more details about it in the userguide (looking for
the best place) and I would like to add some type of static access to it. I
find that I do ant.copy all over the place inside other DefaultTasks. I can
easily add a static accessor to do this, but this seems generally useful for
other tasks as well. Would anyone else like a way to call all the types of
tasks like this? Should this just be exposed at the project level, so you could
just do:
task myTask << {
copy() {
from 'src/stuff'
into 'dest'
}
}
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Steve Appling
Automated Logic Research Team
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