Missing emma_ant.properties file

[Jay Sissom]

The file emma_ant.properties file isn't present in any of the files I've downloaded.  Can you please post the contents of that file?

Ant doesn't know about the instr tag without it.

Thanks

[Vlad Roubtsov]

emma_ant.properties is packaged in emma.jar (which I have just verified in the release build files)

When you use an ANT construct like what's shown in the samples:

<taskdef resource="emma_ant.properties" classpathref="emma.lib" />

the resource file is pulled out of classpath as referenced by emma.lib. Are you sure you have emma.lib defined correctly? The samples use

<path id="emma.lib" >
    <pathelement location="${emma.dir}/emma.jar" />
    <pathelement location="${emma.dir}/emma_ant.jar" />
  </path>

and the user guide uses a "*.jar" pattern, but they all results in the same thing (emma.jar being part of emma.lib).

Thanks,
Vlad.

[Jay Sissom]

I'm pretty sure it's correct, but it can't find the instr task.

Here's the part from my build.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project basedir="." default="default" name="project">
    <property name="emma.dir" value="/Users/me/java/emma/lib"/>
    <path id="emma.lib">
      <pathelement location="${emma.dir}/emma.jar"/>
      <pathelement location="${emma.dir}/emma_ant.jar"/>
    </path>

    <taskdef resource="emma_ant.properties" classpathref="emma.lib"/>

ls -al /Users/me/java/emma/lib
total 896
drwxr-xr-x  4 me me     136 24 May 21:24 .
drwxr-xr-x  8 me me     272 24 May 18:50 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 me me  420944 19 May 23:22 emma.jar
-rw-r--r--  1 me me   35857 19 May 23:22 emma_ant.jar

ant emma
Buildfile: build.xml

emma:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/me/java/project/build.xml:68: Could not create task or type of type: instr.

Do you see what I'm missing?

Thanks
Jay

[Vlad Roubtsov]

I am almost certain I know what you are missing.  The thing is, <instr> is not a real first-level ANT task: it is a subtask of the "umbrella" <emma> task. This will not work:

<instr ...>
</instr>

it should be like this:

<emma ...>
  <instr ...>
  </instr>
</emma>

See the two build-***.xml files in the examples/ directory of the emma-x.x.xxx.zip download.

The only two "real" ANT tasks in EMMA are <emma> and <emmajava>, the rest are subtasks nested inside those. I know this design is a little unusual but I had my own reasons for it. Again, all user guide examples make sure to show the parent <emma> task everywhere, e.g. http://emma.sourceforge.net/userguide/ar01s03s03.html

[Jay Sissom]

OK, that was it.  I got it working.

Thanks for your help.  It looks great!

Jay