ant rules for typescript compile

I extended littleware's ant template with rules to compile typescript (*.ts) files in web projects using this ant-macro posted on stackoverflow. The typescript and yuidoc rules are listed further below.

Littleware's build system just extends netbeans' ant templates with IVY support. Netbeans' ant scripts are designed to support extension hooks that run before and after the different build stages (initialization, compile, package, ...). This is from the comment at the top of a new netbeans project's build.xml file:

    There exist several targets which are by default empty and which can be 
    used for execution of your tasks. These targets are usually executed 
    before and after some main targets. They are: 

      -pre-init:                 called before initialization of project properties 
      -post-init:                called after initialization of project properties 
      -pre-compile:              called before javac compilation 
      -post-compile:             called after javac compilation 
      -pre-compile-single:       called before javac compilation of single file
      -post-compile-single:      called after javac compilation of single file
      -pre-compile-test:         called before javac compilation of JUnit tests
      -post-compile-test:        called after javac compilation of JUnit tests
      -pre-compile-test-single:  called before javac compilation of single JUnit test
      -post-compile-test-single: called after javac compilation of single JUunit test
      -pre-dist:                 called before archive building 
      -post-dist:                called after archive building 
      -post-clean:               called after cleaning build products 
      -pre-run-deploy:           called before deploying
      -post-run-deploy:          called after deploying

...

Anyway - I'm glad for netbeans' extensible ant templates. Littleware's build system could benefit from another rework to better support scala and IVY, but it's good enough for now.

Finally - I also wanted to mention that Ian Obermiller posted on github a typescript brush for Alex Gorbatchev's syntax highlighter. It seems to work great ...

Here are those ant rules I mentioned earlier ...

<target name="config-check">
     <!--
    <available file="${ivy.jar.dir}/littlesettings.xml" property="settings.exists"/>
    -->
    <available file="${ivy.jar.file}" property="ivyjar.exists"/>
    <condition property="skip.download">
        <and>
            <isset property="ivyjar.exists" />
        </and>
    </condition>
    <available file="ivy/test" property="ivy.resolve.test.exists" />
    <available file="ivy/compile" property="ivy.resolve.compile.exists" />

    ...
    
    <condition property="ivy.resolve.exists">
        <and>
            <isset property="ivy.resolve.test.exists" />
            <isset property="ivy.resolve.compile.exists" />
        </and>
    </condition>
    
    <condition property="typescript.ready">
        <and>
            <isset property="build.web.dir" />
            <isset property="typescript.compiler.path" />
            <available file="${typescript.compiler.path}" />
        </and>
    </condition>    
    
    <condition property="ydoc.ready">
        <and>
            <isset property="build.web.dir" />
            <isset property="ydoc.path" />
            <available file="${ydoc.path}" />
        </and>
    </condition>    
    
</target>

<!-- web project stuff -->

<property name="typescript.compiler.path" value="${user.home}/AppData/Roaming/npm/tsc.cmd" />
<property name="ydoc.path" value="${user.home}/Documents/Code/yuidoc/bin/ydoc.bat" />


<target name="ydoc" depends="config-check" if="ydoc.ready" 
    description="run ydoc on build/ js"
    >
  <exec executable="${ydoc.path}">
    <arg value="${build.web.dir}/resources/js/littleware"/>
 </exec>    
</target>

    
<!--
    Recursively read a source directory for TypeScript files, generate a compile list in the
    format needed by the TypeScript compiler adding every parameters it take.
    Thanks Tekool.net:
       http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12799237/how-to-watch-and-compile-all-typescript-sources
-->
<macrodef name="TypeScriptCompileDir">

    <!-- required attribute -->
    <attribute name="src" />

    <!-- optional attributes -->
    <attribute name="out" default="" />
    <attribute name="module" default="" />
    <attribute name="comments" default="" />
    <attribute name="declarations" default="" />
    <attribute name="nolib" default="" />
    <attribute name="target" default="" />

    <sequential>

        <!-- local properties -->
        <local name="out.arg"/>
        <local name="module.arg"/>
        <local name="comments.arg"/>
        <local name="declarations.arg"/>
        <local name="nolib.arg"/>
        <local name="target.arg"/>
        <local name="typescript.file.list"/>
        <local name="tsc.compile.file"/>

        <property name="tsc.compile.file" value="@{src}compile.list" />

        <!-- Optional arguments are not written to compile file when attributes not set -->
        <condition property="out.arg" value="" else='--out "@{out}"'>
            <equals arg1="@{out}" arg2="" />
        </condition>

        <condition property="module.arg" value="" else="--module @{module}">
            <equals arg1="@{module}" arg2="" />
        </condition>

        <condition property="comments.arg" value="" else="--comments">
            <equals arg1="@{comments}" arg2="" />
        </condition>

        <condition property="declarations.arg" value="" else="--declarations">
            <equals arg1="@{declarations}" arg2="" />
        </condition>

        <condition property="nolib.arg" value="" else="--nolib">
            <equals arg1="@{nolib}" arg2="" />
        </condition>

        <!-- Could have been defaulted to ES3 but let the compiler uses its own default is quite better -->
        <condition property="target.arg" value="" else="--target @{target}">
            <equals arg1="@{target}" arg2="" />
        </condition>

        <!-- Recursively read TypeScript source directory and generate a compile list -->
        <pathconvert property="typescript.file.list" dirsep="\" pathsep="${line.separator}">

            <fileset dir="@{src}">
                <include name="**/*.ts" />
                <exclude name="**/*.d.ts" />
            </fileset>

            <!-- In case regexp doesn't work on your computer, comment <mapper /> and uncomment <regexpmapper /> -->
            <mapper type="regexp" from="^(.*)$" to='"\1"' />
            <!--regexpmapper from="^(.*)$" to='"\1"' /-->

        </pathconvert>


        <!-- Write to the file -->
        <echo message="Writing tsc command line arguments to : ${tsc.compile.file}" />
        <echo file="${tsc.compile.file}" message="${typescript.file.list}${line.separator}${out.arg}${line.separator}${module.arg}${line.separator}${comments.arg}${line.separator}${declarations.arg}${line.separator}${nolib.arg}${line.separator}${target.arg}${line.separator}--sourcemap" append="false" />

        <!-- Compile using the generated compile file --> 
        <echo message="Calling ${typescript.compiler.path} with ${tsc.compile.file}" />
        <exec dir="." executable="${typescript.compiler.path}">
            <arg value="@${tsc.compile.file}"/>
        </exec>

        <!-- Finally delete the compile file 
        <echo message="${tsc.compile.file} deleted" />
        <delete file="${tsc.compile.file}" />
        -->

    </sequential>

</macrodef>


<target name="typescript" depends="config-check" if="typescript.ready" 
    description="compile typescript files build/*.ts"
    >
      <TypeScriptCompileDir
          src="${build.web.dir}/resources/js/"
          module="amd"
      />      
      
    <!-- out="${build.web.dir}/resources/js" -->
</target>


<!-- post-compile rule kicks in if build.web.dir netbeans property is defined -->
<target name="-post-compile" depends="ydoc,typescript" if="build.web.dir">
      <copy todir="${build.web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
        <fileset dir="ivy/test"/>
      </copy>
</target>