Steve Loughran wrote:
>
> Alx G wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know if there's anything in Ant that can copy files from a
>> directory to another directory but change all the file names to lower
>> case?
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> working/some_folder/etc/Blah.jpg => dist/some_folder/etc/blah.jpg
>> ...
>> etc. for a whole load of files in various directories.
>>
>> Perhaps there's something I can add to this?
>>
>> <copy todir="${dist.dir}/images">
>> <fileset dir="images"/>
>> </copy>
>>
>> If there's nothing in Ant directly, I'm going to have to write a PHP
>> script
>> that does the renaming but I'd prefer not to create more scripts.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Many Thanks!
>>
>
> The ant-approved way would be a <copy> with an appropriate mapper listed
> as a nested element. This gives copy the mapping from input filenames to
> output names, lets it do the copying and dependency management as
> normal. You just provide the renaming logic .
>
> I dont see one, but I do see in the manual the <scriptmapper> example,
> which (ant1.7+ only) would let you do what you want in a few lines
>
>
> <copy todir="${dist.dir}/images">
> <fileset dir="images"/>
> <scriptmapper language="javascript">
> self.addMappedName(source.toLowerCase());
> </scriptmapper>
> </copy>
>
> If you are running on java6, javascript is built in -no need for extra
> JARs to get scripting working.
>
> Case conversion does sound like a common use case...you could always
> write the java mapper and provide it with tests as an ant enhancement
> bugrep.
>
> -steve
>
>
>
Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. I've upgraded Ant to 1.7 as I like
this scriptmapper solution because it seems the simplest and most elegant.
I've been trying to get it working but so far no joy.
This is what I have:
...
<copy todir="${build.dir}/images/characters/icons">
<fileset dir="images/characters/icons"/>
<scriptmapper language="javascript">
self.addMappedName(source.toLowerCase());
</scriptmapper>
</copy>
...
But it currently does nothing at all. If I take out the scriptmapper task
however it goes ahead and copies the 2000+ files (obviously not to lowercase
names as I would like). My files are of the form, Archery_Aim.gif etc. and
the uppercase characters can occur anywhere - I'm not sure if this is
relevant but I thought I'd mention it.
(I'm not bothered about directory names as they are all in lowercase
anyway).
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