Return-Path: 
 <dev-return-83828-apmail-ant-dev-archive=ant.apache.org@ant.apache.org>
Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@www.apache.org
Received: (qmail 73462 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2008 15:25:35 -0000
Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2)
  by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 15 Dec 2008 15:25:35 -0000
Received: (qmail 73835 invoked by uid 500); 15 Dec 2008 15:25:47 -0000
Delivered-To: apmail-ant-dev-archive@ant.apache.org
Received: (qmail 73489 invoked by uid 500); 15 Dec 2008 15:25:46 -0000
Mailing-List: contact dev-help@ant.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dev-help@ant.apache.org>
List-Post: <mailto:dev@ant.apache.org>
List-Id: "Ant Developers List" <dev.ant.apache.org>
Reply-To: "Ant Developers List" <dev@ant.apache.org>
Delivered-To: mailing list dev@ant.apache.org
Received: (qmail 73467 invoked by uid 99); 15 Dec 2008 15:25:46 -0000
Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230)
    by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:46 -0800
X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=10.0
	tests=DNS_FROM_OPENWHOIS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,WHOIS_MYPRIVREG
X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of lists@nabble.com designates
 216.139.236.158 as permitted sender)
Received: from [216.139.236.158] (HELO kuber.nabble.com) (216.139.236.158)
    by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:25:32 +0000
Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156])
	by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63)
	(envelope-from <lists@nabble.com>)
	id 1LCFJn-0004bB-GK
	for dev@ant.apache.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:11 -0800
Message-ID: <21015811.post@talk.nabble.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:11 -0800 (PST)
From: Raja Nagendra Kumar <Nagendra.Raja@tejasoft.com>
To: dev@ant.apache.org
Subject: Re: FileSet with copy fails with NPE..
In-Reply-To: 
 <OF1C6C77B4.03C59EB0-ON85257520.004E4CA7-85257520.0051F473@us.ibm.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Nabble-From: Nagendra.Raja@tejasoft.com
References: <20935877.post@talk.nabble.com> <493FD215.3080401@talktalk.net>
 <20936814.post@talk.nabble.com> <493FDBB1.5090303@talktalk.net>
 <20949162.post@talk.nabble.com> <y1uwse72klw.fsf@v30161.1blu.de>
 <20951371.post@talk.nabble.com> <y1u4p1aas1q.fsf@v30161.1blu.de>
 <20970202.post@talk.nabble.com> <y1u63lmknrc.fsf@v30161.1blu.de>
 <21014177.post@talk.nabble.com>
 <OF1C6C77B4.03C59EB0-ON85257520.004E4CA7-85257520.0051F473@us.ibm.com>
X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org


Ok Jeff.

I take the documentation of the base and close this..  Though I would
personally loved this to be resolved differently by way of parent and child
approach or by some global defaults automatically initialized in this
context.

Regards,
Nagendra



Jeffrey E Care wrote:
> 
> Raja Nagendra Kumar <Nagendra.Raja@tejasoft.com> wrote on 12/15/2008 
> 08:40:48 AM:
> 
>>        <DeepCopy dir="${foundation.j2me.buildutils.root}/props"
>>           patterns="${deviceID}.*,*.xml,vendor.*, global.*">
>>       <include name="**/${deviceID}.properties"/>
>>        </DeepCopy>
> 
> This is very simple: Ant is creating DeepCopy & that's it. Since Ant is 
> creating DeepCopy as a result of parsing a project file (i.e. build.xml) 
> it will configure DeepCopy. 
> 
> You're creating copy instances within the DeepCopy code, so Ant has no 
> idea that you've created them. You created them so you're responsible for 
> configuring them correctly. It's unreasonable to expect Ant to be 
> omniscient about what you apparently expect it to be omniscient about.
> 
> I understand you're upset that you lost three hours trying to figure this 
> out, but your intransigent pursuit of this issue is baffling considering 
> that you've already been told multiple times what the problem is and 
> pointed to the documentation that explains how all of this works.
> 

-- 
View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FileSet-with-copy-fails-with-NPE..-tp20935877p21015811.html
Sent from the Ant - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@ant.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@ant.apache.org