In my previous post I was trying to implement macrodef in order to substitute repetitive code block with "function like" task. Then I faced some problems. After that I reduced the script, so I can experiment with the tasks I am not used with. Here is what I made up:
<project basedir="../../../" name="do-report" default="extract-common-paths">
<xmlproperty keeproot="false" file="implementation/xml/ant/properties.xml"/>
<!-- -->
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="${infrastructure-base-dir}/apache-ant-1.9.6/lib/antcontrib.jar"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<!-- -->
<macrodef name="get-common-path">
<attribute name="common-path-property"/>
<attribute name="file"/>
<attribute name="file-base-dir"/>
<sequential>
<local name="file-dir-absolute-path"/>
<dirname property="file-dir-absolute-path" file="@{file}"/>
<property name="file-base-dir-absolute-path" location="@{file-base-dir}"/>
<echo>MACRODEF FILE: ${file-dir-absolute-path}</echo>
<echo>MACRODEF FILE-BASE-DIR: ${file-base-dir-absolute-path}</echo>
<pathconvert property="@{common-path-property}" dirsep="/">
<path location="${file-dir-absolute-path}"/>
<map from="${file-base-dir-absolute-path}/" to=""/>
</pathconvert>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
<!-- -->
<target name="clean">
<delete dir="${dita-odt.path.odt-unzipped-base-dir}" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="no"/>
<delete dir="examples/intermediate/odt-files" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="no"/>
</target>
<!-- -->
<target name="unzip-writing-odt-file" depends="clean">
<unzip src="${dita-odt.path.writing-odt}" dest="${dita-odt.path.writing-odt-unzipped}"/>
</target>
<!-- -->
<target name="extract-common-paths" depends="unzip-writing-odt-file">
<for param="file">
<path>
<fileset dir="${dita-odt.path.text-xml-base-dir}">
<include name="**/content.xml"/>
</fileset>
</path>
<sequential>
<get-common-path common-path-property="common-path" file="@{file}" file-base-dir="${dita-odt.path.text-xml-base-dir}"/>
<echo>THIS IS THE PATH: ${common-path}</echo>
</sequential>
</for>
</target>
</project>
The FOR task iterates over two files in different directories. Actually FOR works as expected. It passes ${file} as it should. macrodef attribute common-path-property is first set to the converted path of the first file (it is OK). But when the second file is passed to the get-common-path/@file, the attribute common-path-property doesn't change its value and again I receive this:
[echo] MACRODEF FILE: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text\t1\t1.1
[echo] MACRODEF FILE-BASE-DIR: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text
[echo] THIS IS THE PATH: t1/t1.1
[echo] MACRODEF FILE: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text\t2\t2.1
[echo] MACRODEF FILE-BASE-DIR: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text
[echo] THIS IS THE PATH: t1/t1.1
Instead I hope to receive this:
[echo] MACRODEF FILE: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text\t1\t1.1
[echo] MACRODEF FILE-BASE-DIR: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text
[echo] THIS IS THE PATH: t1/t1.1
[echo] MACRODEF FILE: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text\t2\t2.1
[echo] MACRODEF FILE-BASE-DIR: C:\Users\rmrd001\git\xslt-framework\examples\text
[echo] THIS IS THE PATH: \t2\t2.1
I hope you understand what I am trying to do. Thank you in advance!
Try printing the macrodef attribute values instead of the property values.
@{attribute} - can change with every execution of a macrodef${property} - are always set and fixed once and once only in Ant, even within a macrodef
<local> task, in which case the locally set property value is used within the scope of that block.Probably what you want is provided by the Ant Local task.
Adds a local property to the current scope. Property scopes exist at Apache Ant's various "block" levels.