by:
Curtis White (cwhite at aracnet dot com),
Sean P. Kane (spkane at genomatica dot com),
Rob Anderson (Anderson.Rob at vectorscm dot com), and
Sean Egan (sean at cm-logic dot com)
Version 1.6—02/25/2003
Apache Ant provides several optional tasks for working with ClearCase. These tasks correspond to various ClearCase commands using the cleartool program. The current tasks available for Ant correspond to only a few of the significant ClearCase commands.
More tasks can be easily added by deriving from the ClearCase class and then adding functionality that is specific to that ClearCase command.
Important: these tasks all require cleartool on the command line. If a task fails
with an IOException, especially error=2 on Windows, this is your
problem.
Task to perform a cleartool checkin command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view file or directory that the command will operate on | No |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| nowarn | Suppress warning messages | No |
| preservetime | Preserve the modification time | No |
| keepcopy | Keeps a copy of the file with a .keep extension | No |
| identical | Allows the file to be checked in even if it is identical to the original | No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails | No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase checkin on the file c:/views/viewdir/afile. Comment
text from the file acomment.txt is added to ClearCase as a comment. All warning
messages are suppressed. The file is checked in even if it is identical to the
original.
<cccheckin viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/afile"
commentfile="acomment.txt"
nowarn="true"
identical="true"/>
Task to perform a cleartool checkout command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view file or directory that the command will operate on | No |
| reserved | Specifies whether to check out the file as reserved or not | Yes |
| out | Creates a writable file under a different filename | No |
| nodata | Checks out the file but does not create an editable file containing its data | No |
| branch | Specify a branch to check out the file to | No |
| version | Allows checkout of a version other than /main/LATEST (or whatever is selected
by a config spec) |
No |
| nowarn | Suppress warning messages | No |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| notco | Fail if it's already checked out to the current view. Set to falseto ignore it. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase checkout on the file c:/views/viewdir/afile. It is
checked out as reserved on branch called abranch. All warning messages are
suppressed. A "Some comment text" is added to ClearCase as a comment.
<cccheckout viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/afile"
reserved="true"
branch="abranch"
nowarn="true"
comment="Some comment text"/>
Task to perform a cleartool uncheckout command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view file or directory that the command will operate on | No |
| keepcopy | Specifies whether to keep a copy of the file with a .keep extension or not | No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase uncheckout on the file c:/views/viewdir/afile. A
copy of the file named c:/views/viewdir/afile.keep is kept.
<ccuncheckout viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/afile" keepcopy="true"/>
Task to perform an cleartool update command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase snapshot view file or directory that the command will operate on | No |
| graphical | Displays a graphical dialog during the update | No |
| log | Specifies a log file for ClearCase to write to | No |
| overwrite | Specifies whether to overwrite hijacked files or not | No |
| rename | Specifies that hijacked files should be renamed with a .keep extension | No |
| currenttime | Specifies that modification time should be written as the current time. Mutually exclusive with preservetime. | No |
| preservetime | Specifies that modification time should preserved from the VOB time. Mutually exclusive with currenttime. | No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase update on the snapshot view
directory c:/views/viewdir. A graphical dialog will be displayed. The output will be
logged to log.log and it will overwrite any hijacked files. The modified time will be
set to the current time.
<ccupdate viewpath="c:/views/viewdir"
graphical="false"
log="log.log"
overwrite="true"
currenttime="true"
rename="false"/>
Task to perform a cleartool mklbtype command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| typename | Name of the label type to create | Yes |
| vob | Name of the VOB | No |
| replace | Replace an existing label definition of the same type | No |
| global | Creates a label type that is global to the VOB or to VOBs that use this VOB. | No; only one of the two may be used,
default ordinary=true |
| ordinary | Creates a label type that can be used only in the current VOB. | |
| pbranch | Allows the label type to be used once per branch in a given element's version tree | No |
| shared | Sets the way mastership is checked by ClearCase. See ClearCase documentation for details | No |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase mklbtype to create a label type named VERSION_1. It
is created as ordinary so it is available only to the current VOB. The text Development
version 1
is added as a comment.
<ccmklbtype typename="VERSION_1"
ordinary="true"
comment="Development version 1"/>
Task to perform a cleartool mklabel command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| typename | Name of the label type | Yes |
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view file or directory that the command will operate on | No |
| replace | Replace a label of the same type on the same branch | No |
| recurse | Process each subdirectory under viewpath | No |
| version | Identify a specific version to attach the label to | No |
| vob | Name of the VOB | No |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase mklabel on the file c:/views/viewdir/afile under
the main branch for version 2 (\main\2). Text "Some comment
text" is added as a comment. It will recurse all subdirectories.
<ccmklabel viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/afile"
comment="Some comment text"
recurse="true"
version="\main\2"
typename="VERSION_1"/>
Task to perform a cleartool rmtype command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| typekind | The kind of type to create. Valid types are:
|
Yes | ||||||||||||||
| typename | The name of the type to remove | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| ignore | Used with trigger types only. Forces removal of trigger type even if a pre-operation trigger would prevent its removal | No | ||||||||||||||
| rmall | Removes all instances of a type and the type object itself | No | ||||||||||||||
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used | ||||||||||||||
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |||||||||||||||
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 | No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase rmtype to remove a label type (lbtype
)
named VERSION_1. Comment text from the file acomment.txt is added as a
comment. All instances of the type are removed, including the type object itself.
<ccrmtype typekind="lbtype"
typename="VERSION_1"
commentfile="acomment.txt"
rmall="true"/>
Task to perform a cleartool lock command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| replace | Specifies replacing an existing lock | No |
| nusers | Specifies user(s) who can still modify the object | No |
| obsolete | Specifies that the object should be marked obsolete | No |
| comment | Specifies how to populate comments fields | No |
| pname | Specifies the object pathname to be locked. | No |
| objselect | Obsolete. Use objsel instead. | No |
| objsel | Specifies the object(s) to be locked. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase lock on the
object stream:Application_Integration@\MyProject_PVOB.
<cclock objsel="stream:Application_Integration@\MyProject_PVOB"/>
Task to perform a cleartool unlock command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| comment | Specifies how to populate comments fields | No |
| pname | Specifies the object pathname to be unlocked. | No |
| objselect | Obsolete. Use objsel instead. | No |
| objsel | Specifies the object(s) to be unlocked. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase unlock on the
object stream:Application_Integration@\MyProject_PVOB.
<ccunlock objsel="stream:Application_Integration@\MyProject_PVOB"/>
Task to perform a cleartool mkbl command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| baselinerootname | Specify the name to be associated with the baseline. | Yes |
| nowarn | Suppress warning messages | No |
| identical | Allows the baseline to be created even if it is identical to the previous baseline. | No |
| full | Creates a full baseline. | No |
| nlabel | Allows the baseline to be created without a label. | No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. Since Ant 1.6.1 |
No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase mkbl on the Integration view at v:\ApplicationCC
even if it is identical to a previous baseline. The new baseline with be incremental and
named Application_Baseline_AUTO.
<ccmkbl baselinerootname="Application_Baseline_AUTO"
identical="yes"
full="no"
viewpath="v:\ApplicationCC"/>
Since Ant 1.6.1
Task to perform a cleartool mkattr command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view file or directory that the command will operate on | Yes |
| replace | Replace the value of the attribute if it already exists | No |
| recurse | Process each subdirectory under viewpath | No |
| version | Identify a specific version to attach the attribute to | No |
| typename | Name of the attribute type | Yes |
| typevalue | Value to attach to the attribute type | Yes |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. | No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase mkattr on the file c:/views/viewdir/afile and
attach the attribute BugFix with a value of 34445 to it.
<ccmkattr viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/afile"
typename="BugFix"
typevalue="34445"/>
Since Ant 1.6.1
Task to perform a cleartool mkdir command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view directory that the command will operate on | Yes |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| nocheckout | Do not checkout after element creation | No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. | No; default is true |
Perform a ClearCase mkdir on the dir c:/views/viewdir/adir and do not
automatically check it out.
<ccmkdir viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/adir"
nocheckout="true"
comment="Some comment text"/>
Since Ant 1.6.1
Task to perform a cleartool mkelem command to ClearCase.
| Attribute | Values | Required |
|---|---|---|
| viewpath | Path to the ClearCase view file or directory that the command will operate on | Yes |
| comment | Specify a comment | No; only one of the two may be used |
| commentfile | Specify a file containing a comment | |
| nowarn | Suppress warning messages | No |
| nocheckout | Do not checkout after element creation | No |
| checkin | Checkin element after creation | No |
| preservetime | Preserve the modification time (for checkin) | No |
| master | Assign mastership of the main branch to the current site | No |
| eltype | Element type to use during element creation | No |
| failonerr | Throw an exception if the command fails. | No; default is true |
Perform ClearCase mkelem on the file c:/views/viewdir/afile with
element type text_file, check in the file after creation.
<ccmkelem viewpath="c:/views/viewdir/afile"
eltype="text_file"
checkin="true"
comment="Some comment text"/>