If we can think of an elegant way to design this, this question comes up enough that it might be useful to include such a selector in Ant core.
$0.02, Matt --- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Mikael Sitruk > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to know if it is possible to define a > fileset/filelist > > that will return the first occurrence of the > patterned file from a > > list of directories, like the java class loading > and path. > > > > For example suppose we have 3 directories: > > > > Dir1: a.txt, b.java > > > > Dir2: a.txt,c:jar > > > > Dir3: b.java > > I think you should be able to write a custom > resource selector to do > this, let's say you'd typedef it as > "returnfirstmatch" than you could > use it as > > <restrict> > <union> > <fileset dir="Dir1"/> > <fileset dir="Dir2"/> > <fileset dir="Dir3"/> > </union> > <returnsfirstmatch/> > </restrict> > > shouldn't be too difficult to do, but I don't think > it can be done > with stock Ant, at least not in a generic way. For > you specific case > > <union> > <fileset dir="Dir1"/> > <fileset dir="Dir2"> > <not> > <present targetdir="Dir1"/> > </not> > </fileset> > <fileset dir="Dir3"> > <not> > <or> > <present targetdir="Dir1"/> > <present targetdir="Dir2"/> > </or> > </not> > </fileset> > </union> > > would work, but I'd really choose the custom > selector route. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
