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Writing an Ant Task

You must have something like this into your Ant build.xml file:

<project name="OwnTaskExample" default="main" basedir=".">
<!-- task definition -->
<taskdef name="plantuml" classname="net.sourceforge.plantuml.ant.PlantUmlTask" classpath="plantuml.jar" />

<!-- process ./src files -->
<target name="main">
<plantuml dir="./src" />
</target>
</project>

The Ant task processes all .c, .h, .cpp, .tex, .html, .htm or .java of the provided directory (./src in this example). It looks for @startXYZ and generates .png images.

Output Directory

You can also specify a output directory for all generated images, using output tag.

<!-- Put images in c:/images directory -->
<target name="main">
<plantuml dir="./src" output="c:/images" />
</target>

Recurse through directories

You can also use Ant standard fileset or filelist.

For example, if you want to process all java file in c:/src and subdirectories, (except files ending by Test.java), and generate images into d:/images, you can use:

<target name="main">
<plantuml output="d:/images" >
<fileset dir="c:/src">
<include name="**/*.java" />
<exclude name="**/*Test.java" />
</fileset>

</target>



## SVG or EPS Support


You can also use ``format="svg"`` or ``format="eps"`` in the **Ant** task definition.


## Configuration file


You can also provide a configuration file which will be included before each diagram.

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Other parameters

Parameter Default Description
nbthread 1 Number of thread for processing
graphvizDot   Path of the dot executable
format png Format for image generation: xmi, xmi:argo, xmi:start, eps, svg, txt, utxt
verbose false true for more logs
config   File config to include before all diagrams
charset   Charset to use when reading files
output   Output directory for generated images
dir   Input directory to process (You can use <fileset>/<filelist> instead)
failonerror false true to fail the build if some syntax error occurs
checkonly false true if you want to only check the syntax of files without generating images
overwrite false true if you want overwrite read-only files
enablestats false true to enable statistics
htmlstats false true to output general statistics in file plantuml-stats.html
xmlstats false true to output general statistics in file plantuml-stats.xml
realtimestats false true to generate statistics on the fly rather than at the end