Re: Change working directory for build

On 12/28/05, Varban <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> it seems strange that Anthill will not run the ant script from the root of the
> downloaded source. Since Anthill is aware of where the source is downloaded,
> it changes to that directory and then runs the ant script from there.  It is
> possible that because the ant process is not started in any console, any
> child process will not see the current directory that ant was ran from but
> insdead will point to the cmd.exe location that was used to execute the ant
> process.

I think that's exactly what's happening.

> I am not sure how your A.java class locates the conf directory but I would try
> and use the ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream and ClassLoader.getResource
> methods to locate the properties files (you will need to add the directories
> that hold them to the classpath). This way you will be completely independent
> from the current working directory and the location of the code.

Right now we have this:

private static final String confDir = "./conf";
private static final String serializedFile = confDir +
"/HPLGproperties.serialized";

File dir = new File(confDir);
    Properties prop = new Properties();
    String absPath = null;
    try {
      absPath = new File(".").getCanonicalPath().replace('\\','/');
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

    for (int i=0; i < dir.list().length; i++) {
      String file = dir.list()[i];
      String[] split = file.split("\\.");
      if (split.length<2 || ! split[1].equals("properties"))
        continue;
      //System.out.println("filename='" + split[0] + "'");
      try {
	FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( new File(dir + "/" + file) );
	Properties p = new Properties();
	p.load(fis);
	fis.close();
	for (Enumeration e =  p.propertyNames(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {
	  String el = (String) e.nextElement();
	  prop.setProperty(split[0] + "." + el,p.getProperty(el));
	}
      } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
    }

I think once we get past having confDir set correctly, everything will
be OK.  My Java's beyond rusty; this was actually written by someone
else and I'm just doing process improvements, I'm not supposed to do a
lot of code changes on this.