Renaming files during ANT copy
Solution 1
Resorted to a workaround, using "move", and the correct mapper type as indicated by Mnementh. Thanks
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="Create project structure" default="main">
<target name="main" description="Copy template files to project folder">
<echo>Copying template files to project folder</echo>
<copy todir="${project.dir}" verbose="true" overwrite="true">
<fileset dir="${shared.files}/templateproject" excludes=".svn" />
</copy>
<move todir="${project.dir}">
<fileset dir="${project.dir}" />
<mapper>
<mapper type="regexp"
from="(.*)PACKAGENAME(.*)" to="\1${package.name}\2" />
<mapper type="regexp"
from="(.*)GAMENAME(.*)" to="\1${game.name}\2" />
</mapper>
</move>
</target>
</project>
Solution 2
It seems, that the glob-mapper works only with one '*'. I would try the regexp-mapper:
<mapper type="regexp" from="(.*)PACKAGENAME(.*)" to="\1${package.name}\2"/>
<mapper type="regexp" from="(.*)GAMENAME(.*)" to="\1${game.name}\2"/>
Solution 3
Your problem is that you did not choose the right mapper: <chainedmapper>
will pass information in chain from the first to the last mapper
Instead, <firstmatchmapper>
should be used, which will try all mappers in turn, until one matches
Reference: http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/mapper.html
(quite an old question, but I just found searching for almost the same problem :-))
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Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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tarling almost 2 years
I'd like to copy a directory of files, and rename some of them in the process. When I run the script below, nothing copies. If I comment the glob mappers in the file below, the files are copied (without the renaming)
Thanks for any help. James
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <project name="Create project structure" default="main"> <target name="main" description="Copy template files to project folder"> <echo>Copying template files to project folder</echo> <copy todir="${project.dir}" verbose="true" overwrite="true"> <fileset dir="${shared.files}/templateproject" excludes=".svn"/> <mapper> <chainedmapper> <mapper type="glob" from="*PACKAGENAME*" to="*${package.name}*"/> <mapper type="glob" from="*GAMENAME*" to="*${game.name}*"/> <mapper type="identity"/> </chainedmapper> </mapper> </copy> </target> </project>
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tarling over 14 yearsThanks for your answer. That is the right type of mapper to use. However, the mappers only want to work one at a time - if I comment out two of them, the other one will work. I need them to each of them to be tested - try the first replace, then the second replace, if not copy anyway (the identity mapper). Thanks anyway - this has been helpful.
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user3176001 over 12 yearsGood solution! One thing that doesn't seem to work is if you have multiple items to replace. E.g. consider the path: PACKAGENAME\blah\foo\PACKAGENAME. What I observed was that only the first rename works. My crude workaround was to simply use a <for> loop to do this move 10 times. Ugly but it seems to work.