collective.recipe.ant 0.1dev-r57213

zc.buildout recipe for building ant (java) projects

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collective.recipe.ant package
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What is collective.recipe.ant ?
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Collective.recipie.ant executes an ant build. It assumes java, and and ant
is installed on the system.

Supported options:

ant
Specify the location of the ant application. This option is optional.
If not used the application is looked up in the default path

ant-home
If ant is not located in your default ``PATH```-environment variable
you can specify the location here

ant-options
Specify the options ant should be called with. You may change the
buildfile with the ```-buildfile```option for example.

classpath
Give some extra location for including java libraries.
I.e. junit, ...

You can debug the ant output by increasing the verbosity of buildout.

Simple example
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>>> import os.path

In the simplest form we can download a simple package and have it
extracted in the parts directory.

>>> write(sample_buildout, 'buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = javaproject
...
... [javaproject]
... recipe = collective.recipe.ant
...
... """)

Ok, let's run the buildout:

>>> print system(buildout)
Installing javaproject.
Build failed
While:
Installing javaproject.
Error: System error: Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
<BLANKLINE>
<BLANKLINE>

This one failed. We didn't specify any options. Let's do that.

>>> from os.path import join, dirname
>>> buildfile = join(dirname(__file__), 'testdata', 'echo.xml')
>>> write(sample_buildout, 'buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = javaproject
...
... [javaproject]
... recipe = collective.recipe.ant
... ant-options =
... echo
... -buildfile %s
...
... """ % buildfile)

Fetch the output of the ant process, when being extra verbose

>>> print system(buildout + ' -v')
Installing ...
<BLANKLINE>
echo:
[echo] Foo Bar
<BLANKLINE>
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds
<BLANKLINE>
javaproject: Build successful
<BLANKLINE>


Let's see if the classpath verification works

>>> write(sample_buildout, 'buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = javaproject
...
... [javaproject]
... recipe = collective.recipe.ant
... classpath = %s %s
... ant-options =
... echo
... -buildfile %s
...
... """ % (join(dirname(__file__), 'testdata'),
... tmpdir('foo'),
... buildfile))

>>> print system(buildout)
Uninstalling javaproject.
Installing javaproject.
javaproject: Build successful
<BLANKLINE>

Now we try to reference a (hopefully) nonexisting directory

>>> write(sample_buildout, 'buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = javaproject
...
... [javaproject]
... recipe = collective.recipe.ant
... classpath = %s
... ant-options =
... echo
... -buildfile %s
...
... """ % (join(dirname(__file__), '__bogus__dir__'),
... buildfile))

>>> print system(buildout)
While:
Installing.
Getting section javaproject.
Initializing part javaproject.
Error: Classpath .../__bogus__dir__ does not exist.
<BLANKLINE>


Changelog
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0.1 (2008-01-20)
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- Initial release.

Contributors
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Kai Lautaportti (dokai), Author - [e-mail]

Tom Gross - [e-mail]

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