Problems with FileSet in Ant script?

Question

Hi,

I am using Ant script to generate javadoc and I just only wnt Ant to look for some classes based on a certain pattern, so I wrote:

<javadoc access="public" source="1.6" sourcepath="src" destdir="dest" >

<fileset dir="src" casesensitive="yes" defaultexcludes="yes">
        <filename name="**/ABC*.java"/>
</fileset>

</javadoc>                       

That means I only want Ant to look for source file that starts with "ABC" only and generate javadoc for these files. However, the results are awayls duplicate for each file starting with "ABC".

Did I do something wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

Can you try with a nested include inside fileset, instead of filename like

<include name="**/ABC*"/>

or use the packagenames attribute within javadoc tag as

 <javadoc packagenames="*.abc*"

Answer 2

You cannot use complex file-patterns in the javadoc task.

The javadoc for the Ant Javadoc class mentions this as a limitation:

==Begin Quote===

Current known limitations are:

• patterns must be of the form "xxx.*", every other pattern doesn't work.

• ...

==End Quote===