Re: Ant task properties not working

Hi,

I think the properties attribute of the Checkstyle task is just used to 
override already existing Ant properties,
see here: http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/anttask.html

To just load your properties as regular Ant properties use the property 
Ant task, for instance
<property file="foo.properties"/>

If done so they will be visible to the Checkstyle Ant task.

Hope that helps,
Lars Ködderitzsch


Nathaniel Stoddard wrote:
> I'm having a hard time setting the basedir property for the ant task.  When 
> I put it directly in the checkstyle XML config file, it works.  (I have 
> about 10 projects and want to reuse that file, so I don't want the path in 
> it.)
>
> My ant task is:
>
> <target name="checkstyle" depends="compile">
>     <taskdef  resource="checkstyletask.properties" 
> classpath="/dev/tools/checkstyle-4.3/checkstyle-all-4.3.jar"/>
>     <checkstyle config="../configuration/checkstyle/checks.xml" 
> properties="src/conf/checkstyle.properties">
>         <fileset dir="src/java" includes="**/*.java" />
>         <formatter type="xml" tofile="build/checkstyle/report.xml" />
>     </checkstyle>
>     <xslt in="build/checkstyle/report.xml" 
> out="build/checkstyle/report.html" 
> style="../configuration/checkstyle/report.xsl" />
>  </target>
>
> I've tried about every combination of "checkstyle.basedir", "basedir" for 
> the property key -- trying to get the darn thing to work from a properties 
> file, and as a nested property.  Nothing seems to work.  (I tried the same 
> thing with the cache file and noticed that it was never created where it 
> should have been.)  Can anybody tell me how I am supposed to do this?  All 
> I'm trying to do is trim the full path to just the package name in the 
> report XML file.  Thanks for any help!
>
> Nathaniel Stoddard 
>
>
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