I'm using maven-antrun-plugin to execute a thrift shell command. I can compile one file per <exec>
with <arg value="...path/to/file.thrift" />
, but I would like to compile all .thrift
files in a directory. How can I do this?
I tried using <arg value="...path/to/*.thrift" />
, but Maven rejected this syntax.
The are several options to compile thrift files in maven project:
Maven Thrift plugin supports generation of sources/test sources, recompile on modify, etc. Basically, it's the most convenient way to use thrift in Maven project.
src/main/thrift
(or src/test/thrift
for test thrift sources).Add the plugin to the plugins
section of your pom.xml:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.thrift.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-thrift-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.1.11</version>
<configuration>
<thriftExecutable>/usr/local/bin/thrift</thriftExecutable>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>thrift-sources</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>thrift-test-sources</id>
<phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>testCompile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
That's it: next time you call mvn compile
java sources will be generated from thrift. Generated sources will be placed into target/generated-sources/thrift/
directory, and this directory will be added to the compile path for java compiler.
You can find the detailed instructions, samples and more on the Github: https://github.com/dtrott/maven-thrift-plugin.
If it's necessary for some reason to use antrun plugin, it's better to use apply
command instead of exec
to process a set of files.
I'll write only a basic idea of ant target, since conditional recompilation on modification is probably out of scope of this question:
<target name="compile-thrift">
<!-- Define fileset of thrift files -->
<fileset id="thrift.src.files" dir="${src.thrift.dir}">
<include name="**/*.thrift"/>
</fileset>
<!-- Invoke thrift binary for each of these files -->
<apply executable="${thrift.compiler}" resultproperty="thrift.compile.result"
failifexecutionfails="true" failonerror="true"
searchpath="true" dir="${src.thrift.dir}">
<arg value="-o"/>
<arg value="${thrift.dest.dir}"/>
<arg value="--gen"/>
<arg value="java"/>
<srcfile/>
<fileset refid="thrift.src.files"/>
</apply>
</target>
If it's absolutely necessary for some reason to use Antrun plugin and exec
task, there's a way to do so. I'd advise against it, since it's ugly and not portable, but it might work. Use xargs
to invoke Thrift compiler for a list of files:
<exec dir="${src.thrift.dir}" executable="bash">
<arg line="ls * | xargs ${thrift.compiler} -o ${thrift.dest.dir} --gen java"/>
</exec>