How to fail on pathelement not exists in apache an

Question

I have a really long class path using a <path /> section. On a different machine, lots of the jars dont exist. How can I check the pathelements all exist?

Answer 1

Use the present selector :

<project>
 <fileset dir="/home/rosebud/temp/dir1" includes="*.jar" id="srcfileset">
  <present present="srconly" targetdir="/home/rosebud/temp/dir2"/>
 </fileset>
 <echo>Missing files => ${toString:srcfileset}</echo> 
</project>

echoes all files only present in /home/rosebud/temp/dir1
If all files from /home/rosebud/temp/dir1 would be present in /home/rosebud/temp/dir2, the fileset would be empty.

If you need to finish your build in case of missing files use :

<project>
 <fileset dir="/home/rosebud/temp/dir1" includes="*.jar" id="srcfileset">
  <present present="srconly" targetdir="/home/rosebud/temp/dir2"/>
 </fileset>

 <fail message="Missing files => ${toString:srcfileset}">
  <condition>
   <resourcecount refid="srcfileset" when="greater" count="0" />
  </condition>
 </fail>
</project>