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5 | <title>Symlink Task</title>
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6 | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../stylesheets/antmanual.css">
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11 | <h2><a name="symlink">Symlink</a></h2>
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12 | <h3>Description</h3>
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13 | <p> Manages symbolic links on Unix based platforms. Can be used to
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14 | make an individual link, delete a link, create multiple links from properties files,
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15 | or create properties files describing links in the specified directories.
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16 | Existing links are not overwritten by default.
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17 |
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18 | <p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s are used to select a
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19 | set of links to record, or a set of property files to create links from. </p>
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20 | <h3>Parameters</h3>
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21 | <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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22 | <tr>
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23 | <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
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24 | <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
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25 | <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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26 | </tr>
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27 | <tr>
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28 | <td valign="top">action</td>
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29 | <td valign="top">The type of action to perform, may be "single",
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30 | "record", "recreate" or "delete".</td>
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31 | <td valign="top" align="center">No, defaults to single.</td>
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32 | </tr>
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33 | <tr>
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34 | <td valign="top">link</td>
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35 | <td valign="top">The name of the link to be created or deleted.</td>
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36 | <td valign="center" align="center" >required for
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37 | action="single" or "delete". Ignored in other actions.</td>
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38 | </tr>
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39 | <tr>
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40 | <td valign="top">resource</td>
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41 | <td valign="top">The resource the link should point to.</td>
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42 | <td valign="top" align="center">required for action="single". Ignored in other actions.</td>
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43 | </tr>
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44 | <tr>
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45 | <td valign="top">linkfilename</td>
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46 | <td valign="top">The name of the properties file to create in
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47 | each included directory.</td>
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48 | <td valign="top" align="center">required for action="record".
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49 | Ignored in other actions.</td>
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50 | </tr>
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51 | <tr>
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52 | <td valign="top">overwrite</td>
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53 | <td valign="top">Overwrite existing links or not.</td>
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54 | <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to false.</td>
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55 | </tr>
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56 | <tr>
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57 | <td valign="top">failonerror</td>
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58 | <td valign="top">Stop build if true, log a warning message, but do not stop the build,
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59 | when the an error occurs if false.
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60 | </td>
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61 | <td valign="top" align="center">No; defaults to true.</td>
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62 | </tr>
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63 | </table>
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64 | <h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
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65 |
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66 | <h4>fileset</h4>
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67 | <p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s
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68 | are used when action = "record" to select directories and linknames to be recorded.
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69 | They are also used when action = "recreate" to specify both the name of the property
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70 | files to be processed, and the directories in which they can be found. At least one
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71 | fileset is required for each case.</p>
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72 |
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73 | <h3>Examples</h3>
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74 |
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75 | <p> Make a link named "foo" to a resource named "bar.foo" in subdir:</p>
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76 | <pre>
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77 | <symlink link="${dir.top}/foo" resource="${dir.top}/subdir/bar.foo"/>
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78 | </pre>
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79 |
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80 | <p> Record all links in subdir and it's descendants in files named
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81 | "dir.links"</p>
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82 | <pre>
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83 | <symlink action="record" linkfilename="dir.links">
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84 | <fileset dir="${dir.top}" includes="subdir/**" />
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85 | </symlink>
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86 | </pre>
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87 |
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88 | <p> Recreate the links recorded in the previous example:</p>
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89 | <pre>
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90 | <symlink action="recreate">
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91 | <fileset dir="${dir.top}" includes="subdir/**/dir.links" />
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92 | </symlink>
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93 | </pre>
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94 |
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95 | <p> Delete a link named "foo":
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96 | <pre>
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97 | <symlink action="delete" link="${dir.top}/foo"/>
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98 | </pre>
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99 |
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100 | <p><strong>Java 1.2 and earlier:</strong> Due to limitations on executing system
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101 | level comands in Java versions earlier than 1.3 this task may have difficulty
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102 | operating with a relative path in ANT_HOME. The typical symptom is an
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103 | IOException where ant can't find /some/working/directory${ANT_HOME}/bin/antRun
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104 | or something similar. The workaround is to change your ANT_HOME environment
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105 | variable to an absolute path, which will remove the /some/working/directory portion
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106 | of the above path and allow ant to find the correct commandline execution script.
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108 | <p><strong>LIMITATIONS:</strong> Because Java has no direct support for
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109 | handling symlinks this task divines them by comparing canonical and
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110 | absolute paths. On non-unix systems this may cause false positives.
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111 | Furthermore, any operating system on which the command
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112 | <code>ln -s <linkname> <resourcename></code> is not a valid
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113 | command on the comand line will not be able to use action="single" or
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114 | action="recreate". Action="record" and action=delete should still work. Finally,
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115 | the lack of support for symlinks in Java means that all links are recorded as
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116 | links to the <strong>canonical</strong> resource name. Therefore the link:
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117 | <code>link --> subdir/dir/../foo.bar</code> will be recorded as
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118 | <code>link=subdir/foo.bar</code> and restored as
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119 | <code>link --> subdir/foo.bar</code></p>
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120 |
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121 | <hr><p align="center">Copyright © 2002,2004 The Apache Software
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122 | Foundation. All rights Reserved.</p>
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