All,
I have a NetBeans Platform project (not just a project I wrote in NetBeans, but one using the rich client framework provided by NetBeans). I can run the project via an ant run
command. Now, I want to pass in an argument that will work its way through ant
to be accessible via the System.getProperty
method.
I understand that I need to use a <sysproperty>
node to actually inject the key/value pair into the runtime environment, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to get this to work with the convoluted build tree that NetBeans creates for you (build.xml depends on build-impl.xml, which in turn depends on ${harness.dir}/suite.xml, which in turn depends on ${harness.dir}/run.xml)
The simplest example I've found is
<target name="run" depends="compile">
<java classname="prop"
fork="true">
<sysproperty key="test.property"
value="blue"
/>
</java>
</target>
but the problem is that none of my xml files have an easily accessible <java>
node like that. I think I've managed to trace the execution flow to where something is actually invoked (in ${harness.dir}/run.xml
)
<target name="run" depends="-prepare-as-app,-prepare-as-platform">
<touch file="${cluster}/.lastModified"/> <!-- #138427 -->
<property name="run.args" value=""/>
<property name="run.args.ide" value=""/>
<property name="run.args.extra" value=""/>
<condition property="run.args.mac" value="-J-Xdock:name=${app.name}" else="">
<os family="mac"/>
</condition>
<exec osfamily="windows" executable="${run.exe}" failonerror="no" resultproperty="result.prop">
<arg value="--jdkhome"/>
<arg file="${run.jdkhome}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.common}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.prepared}"/>
<arg line="${run.args}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.ide}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.extra}"/>
</exec>
<exec osfamily="unix" dir="." executable="sh"
failonerror="no" resultproperty="result.prop">
<arg value="${run.sh}"/>
<arg value="--jdkhome"/>
<arg file="${run.jdkhome}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.common}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.prepared}"/>
<arg line="${run.args}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.ide}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.extra}"/>
<arg line="${run.args.mac}"/>
</exec>
<fail>
The application is already running within the test user directory.
You must shut it down before trying to run it again.
<condition>
<and>
<isset property="result.prop" />
<or>
<!-- unknown option exit code as returned from IDE by org.netbeans.api.sendopts.CommandLine -->
<equals arg1="${result.prop}" arg2="50346" />
<!-- unknown option exit code as returned from platform app by org.netbeans.CLIHandler -->
<equals arg1="${result.prop}" arg2="2" />
</or>
</and>
</condition>
</fail>
</target>
As you can see, there is no <java>
node underneath which I can put my custom sysproperty. Furthermore, it seems like a very wrong thing to do to have to muck around with harness xml files to inject a property that only affects one of my projects, not all of them. So what's the correct way to ensure that a command line property I pass to ant run ends up within a NetBeans Platform project?
There is a folder etc in the distribution of your RCP app and in that folder is file yourapp.conf i think there is an answer you seek. For example from one of mine NB RCP app: