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From: Eric Dunn <edunn@merc-int.com>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <user@ant.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Design help
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:30:33 -0700
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Hi,

If I use an environment variable, it is not a permanent fix right? When the machine is rebooted the
environment setting will go away unless we persitenly put it somewhere, right? I cannot expect to modify the
environment on a customer's machine through my ANT script. I will need to pass these arguements as command
line parameters, thus in the batch file.

Thanks again,
Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Sebastien Blanc [mailto:Sebastien.Blanc@alcatel.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 3:16 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Design help


"     I am trying ot figure out how to do this correctly. I want to edit
a .bat file, looking for a specific
java call and adding a command line arguement, and something its command
line specified classpath."

-> u may want to externalize the pb and use for instance an environment variable in the bat script where u
were trying to modify this 'variable', thus reducing the pb to modifying this variable in the environment.

Eric Dunn wrote:

> Forgot to mention, I cannot modify the batch file. It is something like a web server startup file like
> WebLogic or JBoss.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tharp, Joshua L, SOLGV [mailto:jltharp@att.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 3:06 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: Design help
>
> Have you considered having a "source" bat file and just include tokens
> in it (i.e. @TOKEN@)? Then you run a replace or copy on the "source" bat
> with a filter and those tokens will be replaced with the correct values.
> Conversely, if the tokens have already been replaced, then you won't
> find any @TOKEN@ strings in your bat file and nothing will happen.
>
> Josh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dunn [mailto:edunn@merc-int.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 3:03 PM
> To: 'user@ant.apache.org'
> Subject: Design help
>
> Hi,
>      I am trying ot figure out how to do this correctly. I want to edit
> a .bat file, looking for a specific
> java call and adding a command line arguement, and something its command
> line specified classpath.
>
> So I tried replaceregexp and I it works right, but if my customer runs
> it twice it has no way to check if it
> already made the change.
>
> So I installed "Antelope" with its "if\else" tasks but it seems to check
> properties. I need a property that
> dynamically is set by perhaps some custom task like
> "FileContains(filename,searchstring" so that the if\else
> task in antelope can use it an decide whether to run my replaceregexpr.
>
> Is this the right train of thought? Should I just write some monster
> custom ant task to just read the file
> myself, do java conditional logic, and insert if appropriate? I am
> pretty close to doing that.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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