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PDE/API Tools/Tasks

API Tools provides a number of tasks to integrate the tooling into your releng builds. They are available in the org.eclipse.pde.api.tools bundle. The jarred task code apitooling-ant.jar must be on the Ant classpath.

If you are running the tasks from an Eclipse target workspace, you must preface the task name with apitooling.. When running the ant task directly, just the task name is required. If the task name is incorrect, you will get the following error:
/target/Project/build.xml:15:
Problem: failed to create task or type apideprecation
Cause: The name is undefined.

For documentation on task parameters and results see our official documentation.

There are example ant build files at the bottom of this page.

Analysis Task

Official Documentation

This task runs a complete API analysis of an API profile relative to a baseline - including API use, binary compatibility, and bundle version number validation. The profile is the current state of a product under development. The profile is compared to an API baseline for binary compatibility (usually the previous release of a product).

The analysis does not include @since tag validation as all verification is performed on binary class files (source is not analyzed).

Analysis Report Conversion - The report conversion task converts the XML reports created by the Analysis Ant task into an HTML report.

API Freeze Task

Official Documentation

This task identifies APIs that have been added, modified, or removed relative to an API baseline. This task is intended to validate no API changes occur after an API freeze.

API Freeze Report Conversion - The report conversion task converts the XML reports created by the API Freeze Ant task into an HTML report.

API Deprecation Task

Official Documentation

This task runs a complete API analysis of an API profile relative to a baseline - looking only for members (classes, fields, methods) that have been deprecated / un-deprecated. The profile is the current state of a product under development. The profile is compared to an API baseline for deprecation changes (usually the previous release of a product).

API Deprecation Report Conversion - The report conversion task converts the XML reports created by the API Deprecation Ant task into an HTML report.

API Use Task

Official Documentation

This task runs a complete search of a given baseline to determine a producer-centric report of API usage.

The analysis does not include bundles that are not API Tools enabled.

API Use Report Conversion - The report conversion task converts the XML reports created by the API Use Ant task into an HTML report.

API Use Migration Task

Official Documentation

This task takes a given API use scan and tries to re-resolve it within a given candidate product release and reports any unresolved references.

API Use Migration Report Conversion - The report conversion task converts the XML reports created by the API Use Migration Ant task into an HTML report.

File Generation Task

This task runs to generate all files required by API Tooling inside a binary bundle. This task is run during the Eclipse builds or during the bundle export for all projects that have an API Tooling nature.

Right now, only the file called .api_description is created.

Official Documentation

Examples

Example ant build files for the various tasks.

Analysis Task

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="project" default="default">
  <property name="xml" value="/reports/analysis/xml"/>
  <property name="html" value="/reports/analysis/html"/>
  <property name="profile" value="/eclipse/eclipse/plugins"/>
  <property name="baseline" value="/eclipse/eclipse_3.6.2/plugins"/>
  <property name="prefs" value="/settings/analysis/prefs.properties"/>
  <property name="filters" value="/settings/analysis/.api_filters"/>
  <target name="default">
    <analysis
       	baseline="${baseline}"
       	profile="${profile}"
       	report="${xml}"
       	preferences="${prefs}"
       	filters="${filters}"
       	debug="true"
    />
    <analysis_reportconversion
    	xmlfile="${xml}"
    	htmlfile="${html}"
    	debug="true"
    />
    </target>
</project>

API Freeze Task

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="project" default="default">
  <property name="xml" value="/reports/freeze/xml"/>
  <property name="html" value="/reports/freeze/html"/>
  <property name="profile" value="/eclipse/eclipse/plugins"/>
  <property name="baseline" value="/eclipse/eclipse_3.6.2/plugins"/>
  <target name="default">
    <apifreeze
        baseline="${baseline}"
        profile="${profile}"
        report="${xml}"
        debug="true"
    />
    <apifreeze_reportconversion
    	xmlfile="${xml}"
    	htmlfile="${html}"
    	debug="true"
    />
  </target>
</project>

API Deprecation Task

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="project" default="default">
  <property name="xml" value="/reports/deprecation/xml"/>
  <property name="html" value="/reports/deprecation/html"/>
  <property name="profile" value="/eclipse/eclipse/plugins"/>
  <property name="baseline" value="/eclipse/eclipse_3.6.2/plugins"/>
  <target name="default">
    <apideprecation
        baseline="${baseline}"
        profile="${profile}"
        report="${xml}"
        debug="true"
    />
    <apideprecation_reportconversion
    	xmlfile="${xml}"
    	htmlfile="${html}"
    	debug="true"
    />
    </target>
</project>

API Use Task

  <project name="project" default="default">
  <property name="xml" value="/reports/use/xml"/>
  <property name="html" value="/reports/use/html"/>
  <property name="exclude.list" value="/reports/settings/exclude.txt"/>
  <property name="include.list" value="/reports/settings/include.txt"/>
  <property name="scope.pattern" value=".*"/>
  <property name="ref.pattern" value=".*"/>
  <property name="api.pattern" value="org.mybundle.package.*"/>
  <property name="internal.pattern" value="org.mybundle.internal.package.*.*"/>
  <target name="default">
    <apiuse
       	considerinternal="true"
       	considerillegaluse="true"
       	excludelist="${exclude.list}"
       	includelist="${include.list}"
       	report="${xml}"
       	referencepattern="${ref.pattern}"
       	scopepattern="${scope.pattern}"
       	apipatterns="${api.pattern}"
       	internalpatterns="${internal.pattern}"
       	debug="true"
    />
    <apiuse_reportconversion
    	xmlfiles="${xml}"
    	htmlfiles="${html}"
       	debug="true"
    />
  </target>
</project>

API Use Migration Task

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="project" default="default">
  <property name="xml" value="/reports/migration/xml"/>
  <property name="html" value="/reports/migration/html"/>
  <property name="exclude.list" value="/reports/settings/exclude.txt"/>
  <property name="include.list" value="/reports/settings/include.txt"/>
  <property name="scope.pattern" value=".*"/>
  <property name="ref.pattern" value=".*"/>
  <property name="scan" value="/reports/use-3.6.2/xml"/>
  <property name="candidate" value="/eclipse/eclipse-3.7/plugins"/>
  <target name="default">
    <apimigration
       	excludelist="${exclude.list}"
      	includelist="${include.list}"
       	usescan="${scan}"
       	candidate="${candidate}"
       	scopepattern="${scope.pattern}"
       	referencepattern="${ref.pattern}"
       	report="${xml}"
       	debug="true"
    />
    <apimigration_reportconversion
    	xmlfiles="${xml}"
    	htmlfiles="${html}"
       	debug="true"
    />
  </target>
</project>

File Generation Task

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="project" default="default">
  <property name="project.name" value="api.tools.generation"/>
  <property name="bin" value="/eclipse/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/bin:/eclipse/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/antbin"/>
  <property name="src" value="/eclipse/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools/src"/>
  <property name="target" value="/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.api.tools"/>
  <property name="manifests" value="/eclipse/my.bundle/MANIFEST.MF:/eclipse/my.bundle.2/MANIFEST.MF"/>
  <target name="default">
    <apigeneration
       	projectname="${project.name}"
       	project="${src}"
       	binary="${bin}"
       	target="${target}"
       	extramanifests="${manifests}"
       	debug="true"
    />
  </target>
</project>

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