[Anthill] How do I tell Anthill what my build artifact dir is ?

[Marcio Marchini]

Hi Varban,

	Well, that's not quite correct. There's a simpler way. What I found out 
by *looking at the example* (instead of reading the manual) is that 
Anthill passes a property in. And if you want to build outside Anthill 
(cmd-line or Eclipse or...) then you need the property defined youself. 
So, all I had to do was to put this in my build.properties file:

build.dir=build
;passed by Anthill. In case you run outside Anthill, we define it
deployDir=${build.dir}/artifacts
;now we define our own variable name
artifacts.dir=${deployDir}


	and now I simply use ${artifacts.dir}. When I build from the cmd-line 
or Eclipse I get this:

  Artifacts will go under build/artifacts


	When I build from Anthill I get this:

Artifacts will go under C:\java\anthill-1.8.0.264\publishDir\HelloWorld


	and the artifacts are available from the web interface.


	Just perfect, just the way I wanted. Definitely something that 
could/should be better explained in the manual.

marcio


varban wrote:
> Hi Marcio,
> 
> I am afraid that you have to publish the files that you want using your 
> build script.
> Let's say that you have a directory .../builds/reports that you would 
> like to make available in the AnthillOS UI.
> In order to do that you need a task in your build script (or another 
> build script) that will be executed at the end of the build and will 
> read the publishDir property that AnthillOs passes to ant and copy the 
> .../builds/reports to the location that the publishDir points to. Then 
> whatever you copied over will be available in the UI.
> The reasoning behind that is to be able to control what is available in 
> the UI, not just publish the whole build directory.
> 
> Regards,
> Varban
> Marcio Marchini wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I build things into a "build" subdir. Into builds/reports I 
>> generate HTML reports for JUnit, JDepend, etc (each in a subdir). I'd 
>> like to make these files available via web browser/Anthill.
>>
>>     I looked at the PDF and saw a bunch of things about where to move 
>> the artifacts so they can be published. What I did not find is how to 
>> tell Anthill what my build artifacts dir is. I mean, I have to tell it 
>> I want it to publish "builds/reports" or, if I prefer, the entire 
>> "builds" dir, or etc.
>>
>>     Did I miss anything? How do I tell ANthill "after a successful 
>> build, please make (besides the logs) the files under build/reports 
>> also available via the web UI"
>>
>>     I tried anthill.publish.url=anthill.publish.url but that did not 
>> work.
>>
>>     I saw anthill.publish.script but it says "The paths to the publish 
>> script relative to the project root directory. (In the near future, we 
>> are going to get rid of the publish script. Publishing of the projects 
>> will still be possible but will need to take place in the main build 
>> script.)". That confused me because 1) I should not need to write a 
>> script (I use Ant, and I gen things in a dir) and 2) it looks like it 
>> will become obsolete.
>>
>>     Confusing. Any ideas? Thanks,
>>
>>
>> marcio
>>
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