http://jamiekrug.com/blog/index.cfm Jamie Krug's ColdFusion blog, regarding ColdFusion/CFML and other programming adventures as well as some learning experiences. EDB: Event Driven Blogging (in the event that I actually have something worth sharing:) en-us Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:37:11 -0400 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:05:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jamie@jamiekrug.com jamie@jamiekrug.com jamie@jamiekrug.com http://jamiekrug.com/blog/index.cfm no http://jamiekrug.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/10/13/svnant-task-type-definition-import I'm finally getting wise and leveraging <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">ANT</a> more, and yesterday was my first attempt at integrating some <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> tasks. I discovered <a href="http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant.html">SvnAnt</a> rather quickly, but didn't have a good sense for the best way to leverage it. Marc Esher kindly helped with a response to my <a href="http://blog.mxunit.org/2009/09/using-svnant-in-your-ant-build-files.html">comment here</a>. Rather than repeating a bunch of path/fileset/typedef lines in every build file that requires SVN tasks, I decided to create a simple build file that would handle this type definition and allow me to place just one import line into each build file that requires SVN tasks. To start, I downloaded the proper SvnAnt distribution (<a href="http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant.html">from here</a>), unzipped the folder under my /opt directory (I'm running <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu</a>), and created a symbolic link to the folder so I can reference it as /opt/svnant. Then, under my /opt/svnant folder I created a build file called svnant-typedef.xml with the following: <code><!-- This build file serves to map SvnAnt's task and type names to their implementing classes. This file should be located in the SvnAnt distribution folder root (parent directory of /lib). It can be imported to any build file, rather than repeating, for example: <import file="/opt/svnant/svnant-typedef.xml" /> --> <project name="svnant-typedef" basedir="."> <!-- get directory of current build file --> <dirname property="svnant.basedir" file="${ant.file.svnant-typedef}" /> <!-- file set for SVNAnt classpath reference --> <path id="svnant.classpath"> <fileset dir="${svnant.basedir}/lib"> <include name="*.jar" /> </fileset> </path> <!-- task/type definitions for SVNAnt library --> <typedef resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml" classpathref="svnant.classpath" /> </project></code> You can read about the ANT import task and its special properties <a href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/import.html">here</a>. Now I need only import the above file in build file's that will use SVN tasks. Here's an example: <code><project name="example" default="main" basedir="."> <import file="/opt/svnant/svnant-typedef.xml" /> <target name="main"> <svn svnkit="true" javahl="false"> <export srcurl="file:///home/svn/example/trunk" destpath="/tmp/example" /> </svn> </target> </project></code> ANT Subversion Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:05:00 -0400 http://jamiekrug.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/10/13/svnant-task-type-definition-import