Apache Ant User Manual

Starteam

Description

Checks out files from a StarTeam project.

The includes and excludes attributes function differently from other tasks in Ant. Multiple patterns must be separated by spaces, not commas. See the examples for more information.

This program makes use of functions from the StarTeam API. As a result this task is only available to licensed users of StarTeam. You must have starteam-sdk.jar in your classpath to run this task. For more information about the StarTeam API and how to license it, see the StarBase web site.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
servername	The name of the StarTeam server.	yes
serverport	The port number of the StarTeam server.	yes
projectname	The name of the StarTeam project.	yes
viewname	The name of the view in the StarTeam project.	yes
username	The username of the account used to log in to the StarTeam server.	yes
password	The password of the account used to log in to the StarTeam server.	yes
targetfolder	The folder to which files are checked out. What this precisely means is determined by the targetFolderAbsolute param.	yes
targetFolderAbsolute	Determines how targetfolder is interpreted, that is, whether the StarTeam "default folder" for the project is factored in (false) or whether targetFolder is a complete mapping to foldername (true). If "true", the target tree will be rooted at targetfolder+"default folder". If false, the target tree will be rooted at targetfolder. Defaults to "false".	no
foldername	The subfolder in the project from which to check out files.	no
force	Overwrite existing folders if this is set to "true". Defaults to "false".	no
recursion	Indicates if subfolders should be searched for files to check out. Defaults to "true".	no
verbose	Provides progress information. Defaults to "false".	no
includes	Only check out files that match at least one of the patterns in this list. Patterns must be separated by spaces. Patterns in excludes take precedence over patterns in includes.	no
excludes	Do not check out files that match at least one of the patterns in this list. Patterns must be separated by spaces. Patterns in excludes take precedence over patterns in includes.	no

Examples

  <starteam servername="STARTEAM" 
            serverport="49201"
            projectname="AProject" 
            viewname="AView"
            username="auser"
            password="secret"
            targetfolder="C:\dev\buildtest\co"
  />

The minimum necessary to check out files out from a StarTeam server. This will check out all files in the AView view of the AProject project to C:\dev\buildtest\co.

  <starteam servername="STARTEAM" 
            serverport="49201"
            projectname="AProject" 
            viewname="AView"
            username="auser"
            password="secret"
            targetfolder="C:\dev\buildtest\co"
            foldername="\Dev"
            excludes="*.bak *.old"
            force="true"
  />

This will checkout all files from the Dev folder and below that do not end in .bak or .old. The force flag will cause any existing files to be overwritten by the version in StarTeam.

  <starteam servername="STARTEAM" 
            serverport="49201"
            projectname="AProject" 
            viewname="AView"
            username="auser"
            password="secret"
            targetfolder="C:\dev\buildtest\co"
            includes="*.htm *.html"
            excludes="index.*"
  />

This is an example of overlapping includes and excludes attributes. Because excludes takes precedence over includes, files named index.html will not be checked out by this command.

 <starteam servername="STARTEAM" 
            serverport="49201"
            projectname="AProject" 
            foldername="src/java"
            viewname="AView"
            username="auser"
            password="secret"
            targetfolder="C:\dev\buildtest\co"
            targetfolderabsolute="true"
  />

 <starteam servername="STARTEAM" 
            serverport="49201"
            projectname="AProject" 
            foldername="src/java"
            viewname="AView"
            username="auser"
            password="secret"
            targetfolder="C:\dev\buildtest\co"
            targetfolderabsolute ="false"
  />

 <starteam servername="STARTEAM" 
            serverport="49201"
            projectname="AProject" 
            foldername="src/java"
            viewname="AView"
            username="auser"
            password="secret"
            targetfolder="C:\dev\buildtest\co\src\java"
            targetfolderabsolute="true"
  />

In the preceding three examples, assuming that the AProject project has a default folder of "AProject", the first example will check the files located in starteam under src/java out to a tree rooted at C:\dev\buildtest\co, the second to a tree rooted at C:\dev\buildtest\co\AProject\src\java and the third to a tree rooted at C:\dev\buildtest\co\src\java.