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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ distributed with this work for additional information
+ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ under the License.
+-->
+<project name="libthrift" default="dist" basedir="."
+  xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant">
+
+  <description>Thrift Build File</description>
+
+  <property name="gen" location="gen-java" />
+  <property name="genbean" location="gen-javabean" />
+
+  <property name="src" location="src" />
+  <property name="build" location="build" />
+  <property name="javadoc" location="${build}/javadoc" />
+  <property name="install.path" value="/usr/local/lib" />
+  <property name="src.test" location="test" />
+  <property name="build.test" location="${build}/test" />
+  <property name="test.thrift.home" location="../../test"/>
+
+  <property file="${user.home}/.thrift-build.properties" />
+
+  <!-- ivy properties -->
+  <property name="ivy.version" value="2.0.0-rc2" />
+  <property name="ivy.dir" location="${build}/ivy" />
+  <property name="ivy.jar" location="${ivy.dir}/ivy-${ivy.version}.jar"/>
+  <property name="ivy.lib.dir" location="${ivy.dir}/lib" />
+  <property name="ivy_repo_url" value="http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/${ivy.version}/ivy-${ivy.version}.jar"/>
+  <property name="ivysettings.xml" location="${ivy.dir}/ivysettings.xml" />
+
+  <path id="compile.classpath">
+    <fileset dir="${ivy.lib.dir}">
+      <include name="**/*.jar" />
+    </fileset>
+  </path>
+
+  <path id="test.classpath">
+    <path refid="compile.classpath" />
+    <pathelement location="build/test" />
+    <pathelement location="libthrift.jar" />
+  </path>
+
+  <target name="init">
+    <tstamp />
+    <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build.test}" />
+    <!--
+    Allow Ivy to be disabled with "-Dnoivy=".
+    It is kind of a hack to pretend that we already found it,
+    but Ant doesn't provide an easy way of blocking dependencies
+    from executing or checking multiple conditions.
+    -->
+    <condition property="ivy.found"><isset property="noivy" /></condition>
+    <condition property="offline"><isset property="noivy" /></condition>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="ivy-init-dirs">
+    <mkdir dir="${ivy.dir}" />
+    <mkdir dir="${ivy.lib.dir}" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="ivy-download" depends="ivy-init-dirs" description="To download ivy" unless="offline">
+    <get src="${ivy_repo_url}" dest="${ivy.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="ivy-probe-antlib">
+    <condition property="ivy.found">
+      <typefound uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" name="cleancache"/>
+    </condition>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="ivy-init-antlib" depends="ivy-download,ivy-probe-antlib" unless="ivy.found">
+    <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" onerror="fail"
+      loaderRef="ivyLoader">
+      <classpath>
+        <pathelement location="${ivy.jar}"/>
+      </classpath>
+    </typedef>
+    <fail>
+      <condition >
+        <not>
+          <typefound uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" name="cleancache"/>
+        </not>
+      </condition>
+      You need Apache Ivy 2.0 or later from http://ant.apache.org/
+      It could not be loaded from ${ivy_repo_url}
+    </fail>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="resolve" depends="ivy-init-antlib" description="retrieve dependencies with ivy" unless="noivy">
+    <ivy:retrieve />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="compile" depends="init,resolve">
+    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" source="1.5" debug="true" classpathref="compile.classpath" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="javadoc" depends="init">
+    <javadoc sourcepath="${src}"
+      destdir="${javadoc}"
+      version="true"
+      windowtitle="Thrift Java API"
+      doctitle="Thrift Java API">
+    </javadoc>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="dist" depends="compile">
+    <jar jarfile="libthrift.jar">
+      <fileset dir="${build}">
+        <include name="**/*.class" />
+      </fileset>
+      <fileset dir="src">
+        <include name="**/*.java" />
+      </fileset>
+    </jar>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="install" depends="dist,javadoc">
+    <exec executable="install">
+      <arg line="libthrift.jar ${install.path}" />
+    </exec>
+    <copy todir="${install.javadoc.path}">
+      <fileset dir="${javadoc}">
+        <include name="**/*" />
+      </fileset>
+    </copy>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="clean">
+    <delete dir="${build}" />
+    <delete dir="${gen}"/>
+    <delete dir="${genbean}"/>
+    <delete dir="${javadoc}"/>
+    <delete file="libthrift.jar" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="compile-test" description="Build the test suite classes" depends="generate,dist">
+    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${gen}" destdir="${build.test}" classpathref="test.classpath" />
+    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${genbean}" destdir="${build.test}" classpathref="test.classpath" />
+    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${src.test}" destdir="${build.test}" classpathref="test.classpath" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="test" description="Run the full test suite" depends="compile-test">
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.JSONProtoTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.TCompactProtocolTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.IdentityTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.EqualityTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.ToStringTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.DeepCopyTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.MetaDataTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.JavaBeansTest"
+      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="generate">
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift">
+      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/ThriftTest.thrift" />
+    </exec>
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift">
+      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/DebugProtoTest.thrift" />
+    </exec>
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift">
+      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/OptionalRequiredTest.thrift" />
+    </exec>
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift">
+      <arg line="--gen java:beans,nocamel ${test.thrift.home}/JavaBeansTest.thrift" />
+    </exec>
+  </target>
+
+</project>