Concepts and Types - TypesDirSetDirSetA DirSet is a group of directories. These directories can be found in adirectory tree starting in a base directory and are matched bypatterns taken from a number of PatternSetsand Selectors. PatternSets can be specified as nested<patternset> elements. In addition, DirSet holdsan implicit PatternSet and supports the nested<include>, <includesfile>,<exclude> and <excludesfile>elements of <patternset> directly, as well as<patternset>'s attributes. Selectors are available as nested elements within the DirSet.If any of the selectors within the DirSet do not select the directory, itis not considered part of the DirSet. This makes a DirSetequivalent to an <and> selector container. | Attribute | Description | Required | | dir | The root of the directory tree of this DirSet. | Yes | | includes | A comma- or space-separated list of patterns of directories that must be included; all directories are included when omitted. | No | | includesfile | The name of a file; each line of this file is taken to be an include pattern. | No | | excludes | A comma- or space-separated list of patterns of directories that must be excluded; no directories are excluded when omitted. | No | | excludesfile | The name of a file; each line of this file is taken to be an exclude pattern. | No | | casesensitive | Specifies whether case-sensitivity should be applied (true|yes|on or false|no|off). | No; defaults to true. | | followsymlinks | Shall symbolic links be followed? Defaults to true. See fileset's documentation. | No | | erroronmissingdir | Specify what happens if the base directory does not exist. If true a build error will happen, if false, the dirset will be ignored/empty. Defaults to true. Since Apache Ant 1.7.1 (default is true for backward compatibility reasons.) | No | Examples<dirset dir="${build.dir}"> <include name="apps/**/classes"/> <exclude name="apps/**/*Test*"/></dirset>
Groups all directories named classes found under theapps subdirectory of ${build.dir}, except thosethat have the text Test in their name. <dirset dir="${build.dir}"> <patternset id="non.test.classes"> <include name="apps/**/classes"/> <exclude name="apps/**/*Test*"/> </patternset></dirset>
Groups the same directories as the above example, but also establishesa PatternSet that can be referenced in other<dirset> elements, rooted at a different directory. <dirset dir="${debug_build.dir}"> <patternset refid="non.test.classes"/></dirset>
Groups all directories in directory ${debug_build.dir},using the same patterns as the above example. <dirset id="dirset" dir="${workingdir}"> <present targetdir="${workingdir}"> <mapper type="glob" from="*" to="*/${markerfile}" /> </present></dirset>
Selects all directories somewhere under ${workingdir}which contain a ${markerfile}. | 
