I had created this Custom Ant Task sometime ago while working on a project where I needed to check whether an item exists in the list. As I did not find any other efficient way to do it using any of the standard Ant tasks, I created one on my own. I'm publishing (see below GitHub project location) this Custom Ant Task source code as an Open Source. Feel free to use/modify/distribute it as per your need or suggest if you have any other better ways to do it.
2) The GitHub project also has Ant build file build.xml to build the project from source code, sample-usage.xml - Ant build file that shows few usage scenarios of 'IsInList' task and README.txt that basically explains how to use it.
How to Use It?
Follow the steps below:
1) Make sure isinlist-<version>.jar file is in your build classpath. You can do it either by adding it into your $ANT_HOME/lib directory or by defining a custom library path like below and making a reference to it.
2) Next, define the "isinlist" task, below is one of the few ways:
3) Use it, see the examples below:
Example 1:
You have a list of items like "ci;Inting.*;release;SystemOut_16.01.23.log;native_stdout.*;native_stderr.*" separated by ";". Here you need to find out whether or not any item starting with "native_stdout.log" exists. In this case you can do lookup using regular expression (isRegEx="true"). In your build file, you'll need to have:
Example 2:
You have a list of items like "ci;Inting.*;release;SystemOut_16.01.23.log;native_stdout.*;native_stderr.*" separated by ";".
Here you need to find out whether an item called "release" exists in the given list. In this case you can use regular lookup, meaning isRegEx="false".
See the sample-usage.xml for complete example and more detail usage scenarios.
You can get/dowload files from GitHub location: https://github.com/pppoudel/customanttasks.
What IsInList contains?
1) It contains one Java source file: com.sysgenius.tools.ant.customtask.IsInList.java
2) The GitHub project also has Ant build file build.xml to build the project from source code, sample-usage.xml - Ant build file that shows few usage scenarios of 'IsInList' task and README.txt that basically explains how to use it.
How to Use It?
Follow the steps below:
1) Make sure isinlist-<version>.jar file is in your build classpath. You can do it either by adding it into your $ANT_HOME/lib directory or by defining a custom library path like below and making a reference to it.
<path id="ant.opt.lib.path"> |
2) Next, define the "isinlist" task, below is one of the few ways:
<typedef classname="com.sysgenius.tools.ant.customtask.IsInList" name="isinlist" classpathref="ant.opt.lib.path"/> |
3) Use it, see the examples below:
Example 1:
You have a list of items like "ci;Inting.*;release;SystemOut_16.01.23.log;native_stdout.*;native_stderr.*" separated by ";". Here you need to find out whether or not any item starting with "native_stdout.log" exists. In this case you can do lookup using regular expression (isRegEx="true"). In your build file, you'll need to have:
<property name="item.list" value="ci;Inting.*;release;SystemOut_16.01.23.log;native_stdout.*;native_stderr.*"/> |
Example 2:
You have a list of items like "ci;Inting.*;release;SystemOut_16.01.23.log;native_stdout.*;native_stderr.*" separated by ";".
Here you need to find out whether an item called "release" exists in the given list. In this case you can use regular lookup, meaning isRegEx="false".
<property name="item.list" value="ci;Inting.*;release;SystemOut_16.01.23.log;native_stdout.*;native_stderr.*"/> |
See the sample-usage.xml for complete example and more detail usage scenarios.
You can get/dowload files from GitHub location: https://github.com/pppoudel/customanttasks.
