How to exclude a directory from ant fileset based on directories contents

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How can I create an ant fileset which excludes certain directories based on the contents of the directory   I use ant to create a distribution jar which has each localization in separate directories  some of which are incomplete and should not be released   I would like to add something to the directory  for example a file named incomplete flag  so that ant excludes the directory  Then I can delete the file when translation is complete  and include it in the build without modifying build xml   Given this directory structure   proj   locale     de-DE     en-US     fr-FR   This fileset excludes all incompelte flag files  but how can I exclude the entire directories that contain them      lt fileset dir    basedir   gt       lt include name  locale    gt       lt exclude name  locale   incomplete flag  gt     lt  fileset gt    I can write an ant task if need be  but I m hoping the fileset can handle this use case

User · Answer

There is actually an example for this type of issue in the Ant documentation. It makes use of Selectors (mentioned above) and mappers. See last example in http://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/dirset.html :

<dirset id="dirset" dir="${workingdir}">
   <present targetdir="${workingdir}">
        <mapper type="glob" from="*" to="*/${markerfile}" />
   </present>
</dirset>

Selects all directories somewhere under ${workingdir} which contain a ${markerfile}.

User · Answer

Here s an alternative  instead of adding an incomplete flag file to every dir you want to exclude  generate a file that contains a listing of all the directories you want to exclude and then use the excludesfile attribute  Something like this    lt fileset dir    basedir   excludesfile  FileWithExcludedDirs properties  gt     lt include name  locale    gt     lt exclude name  locale   incomplete flag  gt   lt  fileset gt    Hope it helps

User · Answer

I think one way is first to check whether your file exists and if it exists to exclude the folder from copy    lt target name  excludeLocales  gt        lt property name  de-DE file  value    basedir  locale de-DE incompelte flag   gt       lt available property  de-DE file exists  file    de-DE file     gt        lt copy todir  C  temp   gt           lt fileset dir    basedir  locale  gt               lt exclude name  de-DE     if    de-DE file exists    gt               lt include name  xy      gt           lt  fileset gt       lt  copy gt   lt  target gt    This should work also for the other languages

User · Answer

works for me    lt target name  build2-jar  depends  compile   gt      lt jar destfile    myJjar jar  gt           lt fileset dir    WebContent WEB-INF lib  includes  hibernate  jar mysql  jar    gt           lt fileset dir    WebContent WEB-INF classes  excludes     controlador   class    form   class    orm   class    reporting   class    org w3 xmldsig   class   gt      lt  jar gt

User · Answer

it works for me with a jar target    lt jar jarfile    server jar   basedir    classes dir   excludes     client   gt     lt manifest gt       lt attribute name  Main-Class  value    mainServer class     gt     lt  manifest gt   lt  jar gt    this code include all files in  classes dir  but exclude the directory  client  from the jar

User · Answer

The following approach works for me    lt exclude name     dir name to exclude       gt

User · Answer

Answer provided by user mgaert works for me  I think it should be marked as the right answer   It works also with complex selectors like in this example     lt  --      selects only direct subdirectories of   targetdir  if they have a     sub-subdirectory named either sub1 or sub2 -- gt   lt dirset dir    targetdir    gt       lt and gt           lt depth max  0   gt           lt or gt               lt present targetdir    targetdir   gt                   lt globmapper from     to    sub1    gt               lt  present gt               lt present targetdir    targetdir   gt                   lt globmapper from     to    sub2    gt               lt  present gt           lt  or gt       lt  and gt   lt  dirset gt    Thus  having a directory structure like this   targetdir  -- bar         -- sub3  -- baz         -- sub1  -- foo         -- sub2  -- phoo         -- sub1         -- sub2  -- qux      -- xyzzy          -- sub1   the above dirset would contain only baz foo phoo  bar doesn t match because of sub3 while xyzzy doesn t match because it s not a direct subdirectory of targetdir

User · Answer

This is possible by using      pattern as following    lt exclude name  maindir    incomplete flag   gt    the above  exclude  will exclude all directories completely which contains incomplete flag file

User · Answer

You need to add a     after the dir name   lt exclude name  WEB-INF     gt

[ant] How to exclude a directory from ant fileset, based on directories contents

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