Converting Frameworks into path-like structures in ant

From: Bill Michell (bill.michel..bc.co.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 11 2005 - 09:12:28 EDT

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    I’m trying to add unit tests to my ant automated build scripts.

    The unit testing framework provides its own custom ant task, which expects to be told the runtime classpath for the unit tests using a path-like structure.

    Obviously, the task knows nothing about the <frameworks> element.


    Superficially, the following seems to work:
            <classpath>
                    <fileset dir="${wo.wosystemroot}/Library/Frameworks">
                            <include name="**/*.jar" />
                            <include name="**/*.zip" />
                    </fileset>
                    <fileset dir="${wo.wolocalroot}/Library/Frameworks">
                            <include name="**/*.jar" />
                            <include name="**/*.zip" />
                    </fileset>
                    <fileset dir="${dest.dir}">
                            <include name="**/*.jar" />
                            <include name="**/*.zip" />
                    </fileset>
            </classpath>

    Unfortunately, I then hit a problem with the SecurityManager when referring to certain classes in JavaFoundation.framework, notably NSBundle.

    There also seems to be a version of NSBundle in Foundation.framework, and incompatible signatures mean the test simply won't execute; the java runtime aborts it with a SecurityException.

    Obviously, traversing such large directory structures also takes significant time.

    So my question is how best I can convert the dependencies expressed in the woproject/ant.frameworks.wo.wosystemroot into a path-like structure for my testing task to use.

    I notice that the wocompile task actually goes so far as to subclass the javac task in order to add this framework classpath expansion. Is there some simpler way for me to achieve my goal?



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