Re: Running Calabash as an Ant task

Hi Phil,

It looks like there is a packaging problem with  the ANT functionality in
recent builds: See
https://github.com/ndw/xmlcalabash1/issues/157

Regards
/Andy


On 27 March 2014 10:30, GOOCH, Phil <phil.gooch@oup.com> wrote:

> Hi there
>
>
>
> The Calabash documentation suggests that it is possible to run Calabash as
> an Ant task. However, I am struggling to get this to work, and wonder if
> anyone could provide some pointers.
>
>
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> I have added the relevant Calabash namespace and typedef declarations in
> my Ant script, as described in
>
>
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> http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/reference/antsetup.html
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>
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> and I have added calabash.jar to my %ANT_HOME%/lib directory, but Ant is
> unable to resolve the ‘calabash’ task name. My Ant script contains
>
>
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> <target name="build">
>
> <c:calabash in="${source.dir}/${source-lang}/${source-lang}.xml"
> out="${conversion.dir}/${source-lang}/${source-lang}.xml"
> pipeline="${xproc.dir}/demo.xpl">
>
>                                 <parameter name="source-lang"
> value="${source-lang}" />
>
>                 </c:calabash>
>
> </target>
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> I am using the latest version of Calabash, 1.0.16-95.
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> I get the following errors:
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> [typedef] Could not load definitions from resource
> com/xmlcalabash/antlib.xml. It could not be found.
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> Problem: failed to create task or type antlib:com.xmlcalabash:calabash
>
> Cause: the name is undefined
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>
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> Which doesn’t surprise me as calabash.jar does not contain an antlib.xml
> file in com/xmlcalabash. The Calabash documentation suggests that the
> typedef should contain  ‘ resource="com/xmlcalabash/antlib.xml" ‘
>
>
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> I find it a bit unusual that just putting calabash.jar into ant/lib is
> sufficient. I would have expected there to be a separate jar for the ant
> Calabash Ant task, but then I don’t know much about Ant!
>
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> Any help or pointers much appreciated.
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> Cheers
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> Phil
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