I have an ant file which contains a task to compress certain js files. I am using yui compressor
to compress my files. So I have defined the taskdef
<taskdef resource="yuicompressor.tasks" classpath="lib/yuicompressor-taskdef-1.0.jar;lib/yuicompressor-2.4.2.jar" />
and this is how I am using yui compressor ant task
<yuicompressor todir="./js/" verbose="true">
<fileset dir="./js/"
includes="**/*.js">
</fileset>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="*.js" />
</yuicompressor>
When I run this ant
file directly it works fine, that is all js files get compressed.
But when I run this ant file from pom.xml
then it shows
Failed to compress files file_name.js
This is my execution task in pom.xml
<execution>
<id>default</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<tstamp />
<ant antfile="build.xml" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
What could be the possible issue?
In my case I was using the relative path in yuicompressor
<yuicompressor todir="./js/" verbose="true">
<fileset dir="./js/"
includes="**/*.js">
</fileset>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="*.js" />
</yuicompressor>
I updated to
<yuicompressor todir="${basedir}/js/" verbose="true">
<fileset dir="${basedir}/js/"
includes="**/*.js">
</fileset>
<mapper type="glob" from="*.js" to="*.js" />
</yuicompressor>
And working perfectly fine!!