Incorporating 7z in macrodef in ANT

[boshu]

Hi all,

I have been using a macro definition to copy a set of files to different locations and FTP servers. But copying seems quite slow so I want to compress the bundle using 7z and copy all into FTP as one single file. Can it be done using 7z? My amcrodef is below which works:

<macrodef name="copyimages">   
<attribute name="todir"/>   
    <sequential>     
       <copy todir="@{todir}" overwrite="true" failonerror="false">       
           <fileset dir="${build.output.dir}">                   
              <include name="logs/*${build.id}*armv5*scan2.html"/>                   
              <include name="logs/*${build.id}*main.ant.log"/>         
              <include name="logs/*${build.id}*bom.xml"/>         
              <include name="logs/compile/*${build.id}*.*"/>         
              <include name="logs/cone/*${build.id}*.*"/>         
              <include name="logs/post/*${build.id}*.*"/>         
              <include name="logs/roms/*${build.id}*.*"/>         
              <include name="**/*${build.id}_codescanner/**"/>       
           </fileset>     </copy>   </sequential> </macrodef>   

<copyimages todir="${publish.ssdoci.dir}/${env.version}.${build.number}"/>

[Ezzaral]

Ant has a built-in zip task that you could use, but if you want to use 7z instead then I would think you could do it pretty easily with exec.

[boshu]

Compression rate for ZIP is not good. So, I was thinking that 7z would help. But I could no how make it work.

Can anyone give some hints on Syntaxs' ?! pls

[Ezzaral]

Use the exec task as you would the command line with 7z. Arguments are specified with the <arg> element.