The Ant-Contrib project is collection of tasks (and at one point maybe types and other tools) for Apache Ant.
Questions tagged [ant-contrib]
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Getting an error "Could not load definitions from resource net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties. It could not be found."
I am getting an error Could not load definitions from resource net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties. It could not be found. when I am trying to ant build on eclipse. So I downloaded ant-contrib-0.6.jar and kept it in my /lib location of apache…

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Using antcontrib task via maven-antrun-plugin
My maven java project uses the maven-antrun-plugin to execute a deploy.xml ant script that deploys my app. The deploy.xml uses the task and this seems to be causing the problem;
[INFO] Executing tasks
[taskdef] Could not load definitions from…

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Using Ant, is it possible to use AND, OR condition in tag IF?
contrib It's possible to check more condition in tag IF?
I need to do something like this :
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How can I iterate over properties from a file?
All my projects and their versions are defined in a properties file like this:
ProjectNameA=0.0.1
ProjectNameB=1.4.2
I'd like to iterate over all the projects, and use their names and versions in an Ant script.
At present I read the entire file…

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ant-contrib - if/then/else task
I am using ant, and I have a problem with if/then/else task, (ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar).
I am running something that can be simplified with build.xml below.
I am expecting to obtain from 'ant -Dgiv=Luke' the message
input name: Luke
should be…

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execute Ant task if TWO conditions are met
The above ant script implements if dir_is_empty then git-clone else git-fetch using Ant-1.7.1 core statements:

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How can I use something like an array or list in Ant?
I have a list of strings (e.g. "piyush,kumar") in an Ant script for which I want to assign piyush to var1 like and kumar to var2 like .
So far, I'm using a buildfile like the…

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antcontrib foreach executed in parallel does not raise errors
I have the following ant script that I can't seem to find a way to make fail when parallel is set to true for antcontrib's foreach task. Any ideas?
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Stop ant script without failing build
In my ant script I want to exit (stop executing build) without failing when a condition is met. I have tried to use:
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ANT: How to read property setted in a foreach loop
Dear, I currently face some problem to retrieve the value of a property setted in a foreach loop. Maybe one of you could help me...
The purpose is to check if one file of a folder has been modified since the corresponding jar has been generated.…

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How to copy files from a Unix share to a Windows machine using ant?
I have some files on a Unix machine which I can access from my Windows PC with Windows Explorer using \host\directory
However, when using an ant copy task, ant keeps on saying the directory doesn't exist...
So, the ant part is:

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ant-how can i return value from macrodef?
I need to compare two string args, from which I used to get one arg as runtime input (e.g. platform=windows,ios,mac) and another one has list of values, defined under build.properties (e.g. project.supportedplatforms=windows,mac). If the condition…

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ant - Need to get only file name without extension and entire path
I have couple of .xml files in a folder.I want to loop on each .xml file.It is getting fine.
I want to take only .xml file name without entire path.
How can i achieve that.?
I am using the below piece of code to get the file name.

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Use ant-contrib,how to use "endsWith"?
the ant-contrib lastest version is ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar?
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/more_conditions.html
this document show endsWith condition
But I use ant 1.8.2 And ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar, I cann't find the endsWith condition…

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Check multiple properties are set and not blank (ant)
I'm in a situation that involves running an ant build with optional parameters that are always specified but but not always defined, like so
ant -DBUILD_ENVIRONMENT=test -Dusername_ext= -Dconf.dir_ext= -Dcgi-dir_ext=
If the parameters are not given…

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