Ant scripts for projects that use Strongback #10

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1. rhauch commented on Sep 14, 2015

   

   rhauch

   on Sep 14, 2015

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   @Zabot suggested also using an Eclipse "User Library" rather than a "Classpath Variable". Each user library can define multiple JARs with source code (so more powerful than classpath variables), but changing a project to use user libraries and classpath variables is very similar.

   In fact, when the strongback add-project command is run, it can find the location of the Strongback distribution (worse comes to worse, we can look at the $PATH environment variable or if its not in the path look in the current directory). It can then automatically update the user's User Libraries, which is stored inside the .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs file (a properties file) in a property named org.eclipse.jdt.core.userLibrary.wpi. (We'd have to be sure to only add to the user libraries, not overwrite what they already have!) The value of the property contains a string representation of an XML document (with new line and tab characters), so the property in the org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs file looks something like this:

   org.eclipse.jdt.core.userLibrary.wpi=<?xml version\="1.0" encoding\="UTF-8" standalone\="no"?>\n<eclipse-userlibraries version\="2">\n\t<library name\="strongback" systemlibrary\="false">\n\t\t<archive javadoc\="file:/Users/jsmith/strongback/javadoc/" path\="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib/strongback.jar" source\="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib/strongback-sources.jar"/>\n\t</library>\n\t<library name\="strongback-testing" systemlibrary="false">\n\t\t<archive javadoc\="file:/Users/jsmith/strongback/javadoc/" path\="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib-tests/strongback-testing.jar" source\="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib-tests/strongback-testing-sources.jar"/>\n\t</library>\n
   </eclipse-userlibraries>
   

   where the normal XML document would looks something like this:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
   <eclipse-userlibraries version="2">
       <library name="strongback" systemlibrary="false">
           <archive javadoc="file:/Users/jsmith/strongback/javadoc/" path="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib/strongback.jar" source="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib/strongback-sources.jar"/>
       </library>
       <library name="strongback-testing" systemlibrary="false">
           <archive javadoc="file:/Users/jsmith/strongback/javadoc/" path="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib-tests/strongback-testing.jar" source="/Users/jsmith/strongback/lib-tests/strongback-testing-sources.jar"/>
       </library>
   </eclipse-userlibraries>
   

   The command would then modify the project's .classpath file to add the strongback and strongback-testing user libraries.
2. rhauch

   added this to the Complete work needed before first release milestone on Sep 25, 2015
3. rhauch

   closed this as completedin #14on Oct 5, 2015
4. CarlinWilliamson

   added a commit that references this issue on Jun 30, 2020

   Merge pull request strongback#10 from Team3132/colourwheelUnitTests

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