I am writing an MsBuild script to process config files and do transforms. I am creating a collection of a .Dev.config files thusly:
<ItemGroup>
<DevConfigFiles Include="..\Source\**\*.Dev.config"/>
</ItemGroup>
This works fine. Doing a task against %(DevConfigFiles.Identity) gives me what I would expect. I'd like to take that collection, and create a corresponding collection of the same file names, but with ".Dev.config" replaced with ".config".
I can't figure out the MsBuild syntax to get this done. What is the best way to accomplish this?
NOTE: I would consider alternative techniques for getting the list of *.config files and the corresponding list of *.Dev.config files, but really I'd like to understand the MsBuild syntax for calling string functions over a collection. That is the part that is tripping me up.
ANOTHER NOTE: I can't use the %(Extension) metadata in this case because it doesn't remove the ".Dev" portion of the string. It considers that part of the filename.
Similar SO question where the OP wants to take a collection of files and copy them with the name being based on the original string.
MSBUild: Copy files with a name based on the original (following a pattern)
Related
During my Grunt tasks, add a unique string to the end of my filenames. I have tried grunt-contrib-copy and grunt-filerev. Neither have been able to do what I need them to...
Currently my LESS files are automatically compiled on 'save' in Sublime Text 3 (so this does not yet occur in my grunt tasks). Then, I open my terminal and run 'grunt', which concatenates (combines) my JS files. After this is done, then grunt should rename 'dist/css/main.css' and 'dist/js/main.js' with a "version" at the end of the filename.
I have tried:
grunt-contrib-copy ('clean:expired' deletes the concatenated JS before grunt-contrib-copy' can rename the file)
grunt-filerev ('This only worked on the CSS files for some reason, and it inserted the version number BEFORE the '.css'. Not sure why it didn't work on the JS files.')
Here's my Gruntfile.js
So, to be clear, I am not asking for "code review" I simply need to know how I can incorporate a "rename" process so that when the tasks are complete, I will have 'dist/css/main.css12345 & dist/js/main.js12345' with no 'dist/css/main.css' or 'dist/js/main.js' left in their respective directories.
Thanks in advance for any help!
UPDATE: After experimenting with this, I ended up using grunt-contrib-rename and it works great! I beleieve the same results can be achieved via grunt-contrib-copy, in fact I know it does the same thing. So either will work. As far as support for regex, not sure if both support it, so may be something else worth looking into before choosing one of these plugins :)
Your rename:dist looks like it should do what you want, you just need to move clean:dist to be the first task that runs (so it deletes things from the prior build rather than the current build). The order of tasks is defined by the array on this last line:
grunt.registerTask('default', ['jshint:dev', 'concat:dist', 'less:dist', 'csslint:dist', 'uglify:dist', 'cssmin:dist', 'clean:dist', 'rename:dist']);
That said, I'm not sure why you want this behavior. The more common thing to do is to insert a hash of the file into the filename before the file extension.
The difference between a hash and a timestamp is that the hash value will always be the same so long as the file contents don't change - so if you only change one file, the compiled output for just that file will be different and thus browsers only need to re-downloaded that one file while using cached versions of every other file.
The difference between putting this number before the file extension and after the extension is that a lot of tools (like your IDE) have behavior that changes based on the extension.
For this more standard goal, there are tons of ways to accomplish it but one of the more common is to combine grunt-filerev with grunt-usemin which will create properly named files and also update your HTML file(s) to reference these new file names
I'm not sure to understand completely what end you want, but if you add a var timestamp = new Date().getTime(); at the beginning of your gruntfile and concatenate to your dest param that should do the job.
dest: 'dist/js/main.min.js' + timestamp
Is it what your looking for?
For a group of developers, all the differences are stored in a normal property file:
token1=some value
token2=9000
etc.
The 'tokens' are used in a series of XML files that reside in the normal src/main/resources directory. When Gradle copies these files into the build directory (and I don't know for sure what task that is), is there any opportunity to execute custom code? Specifically, I would like to have the token values from the property file substituted into the copy. Thus, the original copy remains untouched, but the version in the runtime has the desired values for the given developer.
Finally, I know this can done brute force with two or three steps that change the file after it is copied. I really want to know if there is an elegant way to do this in a single step.
After compilation, Gradle calls processResources task that copies the resources into the build directory. While copying resources, processResources can be configured to do the filtering (or possibly execute custom code by adding a doLast):
processResources {
filter org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens, tokens: [
...
]
}
These two links can provide more help:
http://java.dzone.com/articles/resource-filtering-gradle
http://mrhaki.blogspot.in/2010/11/gradle-goodness-add-filtering-to.html
Each test case saves results to a separate UITestActionLog.html file. But in the end of each test case I'd like to move that .html to a different folder and rename it.
Is it possible to do so in, say, [TestCleanup()]? If yes, then how can I programmatically get .html report location?
The TestContext class contains several fields with "directory" in their names. These can be used to access the various directories associated with running the tests.
As well as managing the files as asked by your question the TestContext class has an AddResultFile method. The Microsoft documentation on this mehod is not clear, but it seems that the files are saved for failing tests and discarded for passing tests.
To get the directory in which the UITestActionLog file will be located, use the TestContext.TestResultsDirectory Property. You can use below code to get the full path:
string fullPath = TestContext.TestResultsDirectory +"\" +"UITestActionLog.html";
I'm processing a data set and running into a problem - although I xlswrite all the relevant output variables to a big Excel file that is timestamped, I don't save the code that actually generated that result. So if I try to recreate a certain set of results, I can't do it without relying on memory (which is obviously not a good plan). I'd like to know if there's a command(s) that will help me save the m-files used to generate the output Excel file, as well as the Excel file itself, in a folder I can name and timestamp so I don't have to do this manually.
In my perfect world I would run the master code file that calls 4 or 5 other function m-files, then all those m-files would be saved along with the Excel output to a folder names results_YYYYMMDDTIME. Does this functionality exist? I can't seem to find it.
There's no such functionality built in.
You could build a dependency tree of your main function by using depfun with mfilename.
depfun(mfilename()) will return a list of all functions/m-files that are called by the currently executing m-file.
This will include all files that come as MATLAB builtins, you might want to remove those (and only record the MATLAB version in your excel sheet).
As pseudocode:
% get all files:
dependencies = depfun(mfilename());
for all dependencies:
if not a matlab-builtin:
copyfile(dependency, your_folder)
As a "long term" solution you might want to check if using a version control system like subversion, mercurial (or one of many others) would be applicable in your case.
In larger projects this is preferred way to record the version of source code used to produce a certain result.
I'm trying to store whole the output of my build, this includes some empty folders. These aren't included by the artefact mechanism in teamcity:
What doesn't work:
OAR\=> OAR.zip
OAR->OAR.zip
OAR
Inside of OAR i have a folder structure that needs to be stored. I know i could put a placeholder file in each but that is not the answer i'm after. Otherwise ill have to zip it myself?
Unfortunately TeamCity, by design, searches for files and uploads them as artifacts which means that empty folders are never included. Given the open and very old issue in the TeamCity tracker I doubt they are going to fix it any time soon.
I would recommend zipping the folder yourself, that is the approach we have taken. How you implement that depends on the build technology you are using. For example, if you are building using Nant you could add the zip task to your build, there are similar options for MSBuild and Ant.
If you don't want to rely on the build performing the zip I would recommend installing 7zip on your build agents and using the command line to perform the zip. Just remember if you want 7zip to include empty directories use * as the wildcard rather than *. * like so:
7z a -r OAR.zip *
Technically you could use powershell to do the zipping, which would be better than having to install something on your agents. I haven't tried this option myself.
Apologies for not linking all my references above. Apparently, and understandably so, I need at least 10 reputation to post more than 2 links.