Question

Given a property:

<property name='classes' value='com.package.Class1,com.package.Class2' /> 

I’m trying to compile only the classes specified like:

<javac srcdir='${src.dir}' destdir='${build.dir}'>     <include name='${classes}' /> </javac> 

However the ‘include’ tag is specifying the file names to include, not the qualified class names.

Is there a way I can create a new property/include tag that has all the classes in ‘classes’ in the correct format? ie.

'com.package.Class1' -> 'com\\package\\Class1.java' 

Answer 1

I figured it out. After ant-contrib I can do one of these:

<propertyregex property='classes.resolved'         input='${classes}'         regexp='\.'         replace='\\\\' />