Yes, I meant properties file. However, any file would do, because I
will create the file.
Your reply is just what I was looking for.
Thank you very much and have a good weekend.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you really mean a properties file? e.g.
>
> filestoinclude=foo,bar,baz,blah,whatever,etc
>
> Then you can simply use <fileset dir="wheretolook"
> includes="${filestoinclude}" /> after loading the
> properties file.
>
> If you actually mean a separate file containing only
> the names of the files to include, you'd use an
> includesfile with <fileset> (common basedir/relative
> paths) or <files> (absolute paths). Note that these
> are one pattern per line, however, and don't support
> comments (If you needed to support comments, you could
> <concat> and filter the original). If you really need
> a single line containing comma-delimited files, you
> could filter that to an includesfile as well. The
> good thing about includesfiles is that you can use
> them to specify paths with whitespace; IIRC you can't
> do that with <fileset|files>' includes attribute.
>
> HTH,
> Matt
>
> --- Nan Null <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Hi, I need to provide a fileset in ANT that is
>> customizable by the
>> developers. To do that, I am thinking of a
>> customized property file
>> for each developer to put in the list of files for
>> the fileset. My
>> question is how do I have this in the property file?
>> I am thinking of
>> a comma separated property. Then how do I turn this
>> single value with
>> comma separated into a fileset inside ANT? Is there
>> another method?
>> If not, please give me a hint on write some custom
>> code to make this a
>> fileset. I am not asking on how to split a string
>> here. I mean to
>> ask for how to extends ANT so I can have a
>> customized fileset like
>> this. Thanks.
>>
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