It is difficult to tell what you are trying to accomplish here. Are you
trying to switch only directories, or do you also want file-level filtering?
For directories, there is a slight impedance mismatch you need to deal
with between the javac and the javadoc tasks. You can reuse sets of
directories in javac by using the <src> nested element. But these take
paths, not dirsets. The javadoc task, though, uses a nested packageset
that requires a dirset. So the way to get reuse is to define a dirset,
and then define a path that contains that dirset. Like this:
<dirset dir="${top.dir} id="src.dirs">
<include name="src/**" />
</dirset>
<path id="path.src.dirs">
<dirset refid="src.dirs">
</path>
This example has a slight bug, in that the dirset will contain all
directories in the tree. The javadoc task needs all the directories
which contain Java code, while javac needs only the top ones and will
recurse through the tree by default. This doesn't cause a problem for
javac, as it will know a directory is already specified and will ignore
it. It does cause a problem with the count of files to be compiled, though.
For filtering individual files in the two tasks rather than just
changing directories, the javac task is itself a fileset meaning that
you can specify a selector or patternset as a nested element. These can
be referenced from patternsets or selectors that are defined elsewhere,
and can be reused by specifying them in the fileset nested element of
the the javadoc task.
Note that a common mistake is to think that javac will only compile the
files you specify. The javac program does its own dependency checking,
so you may end up getting more files compiled than you expected. Even if
you exclude a java file with a selector or patternset, it could still
end up getting compiled if the javac compiler decides it is necessary.
Rick Moynihan wrote:
Hi all,
I'm just wondering if it's possible to have the javac & javadoc tasks
share a common fileset.
I have a series of builds with more than one source directory. I
would ideally like a mechanism to specify the directories/files for
both of these once and reuse that definition in both the javadoc and
javac tasks.
We have quite a complex build where we import a base ant file which we
override selectively depending on the build. What I'd like to do is
specify once in base.xml something like (abbreviated):
<!-- override src.dirs in top level build when we want multiple
directories etc... -->
<fileset dir="${src.dir}" id="src.dirs">
<include name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
<target name="build">
<javac...>
<fileset refid="src.dirs"/> <!-- problem -->
<classpath refid="build.classpath"/>
</javac>
</target>
<target name="java-doc">
<javadoc...>
<classpath refid="build.classpath"/>
<fileset refid="src.dirs"/> <!-- works ok -->
</javadoc>
</target>
Unfortunately the above doesn't work as javac won't accept a fileset
in order to specify it's source directories (where as javadoc does).
Ideally I'd like to keep things DRY and not have to resort to
duplicating the specification of my src directories. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance,
R.
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