Whichresource

Description

Find a class or resource on the supplied classpath, or the system classpath if none is supplied. The named property is set if the item can be found. For example:

  <whichresource resource="/log4j.properties" property="log4j.url" >

Parameters

Attribute Description Required
property The property to fill with the URL of the resource of class. Yes
class The name of the class to look for. Exactly one of these.
resource The name of the resource to look for.
classpath The classpath to use when looking up class or resource. No
classpathref The classpath to use, given as a reference to a path defined elsewhere. Since Apache Ant 1.7.1. No

Parameters specified as nested elements

classpath

Whichresource's classpath attribute is a path-like structure and can also be set via a nested <classpath> element.

Examples

The following shows using a classpath reference.

  <path id="bsf.classpath">
    <fileset dir="${user.home}/lang/bsf" includes="*.jar"/>
  </path>
  <whichresource property="bsf.class.location"
                 class="org.apache.bsf.BSFManager"
                 classpathref="bsf.classpath"/>
  <echo>${bsf.class.location}</echo>

The following shows using a nested classpath.

  <whichresource
    property="ant-contrib.antlib.location"
    resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
    <classpath>
      <path path="f:/testing/ant-contrib/target/ant-contrib.jar"/>
    </classpath>
  </whichresource>
  <echo>${ant-contrib.antlib.location}</echo>