How do I make the installer perform a string substitution as part of the installation?

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Jake

• September 06, 2011 12:32

How do I make the installer perform a string substitution as part of the installation?

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  Jake

  • September 06, 2011 12:35

  You can perform string substitutions with the substitution action. This action allows you to specify pattern/value pairs that will be substituted in certain files. It takes a list of glob file patterns separated by ';' and a list of the pattern/value pairs.

         <substitute>
           <files>*/launcher/launchMyJavaApp.sh;*/bin/*.sh</files>
           <substitutionList>
             <substitution>
               <pattern>@@INSTALLDIR@@</pattern>
               <value>${installdir}</value>
             </substitution>
             <substitution>
               <pattern>@@JAVADIR@@</pattern>
               <value>${installdir}/jre</value>
             </substitution>
           </substitutionList>
         </substitute>
  

  Suppose the user sets /home/user/application as installdir and the original launchMyJavaApp.sh looked like:

  #!/bin/sh
  export MYAPPDIR=@@INSTALLDIR@@
  @@JAVADIR@@/bin/java com.some.class.Name
  

  Then the script will look like the following after installation:

  #!/bin/sh
  export MYAPPDIR=/home/user/application
  /home/user/application/jre/bin/java com.some.class.Name
  

  You can find more information about this action in Actions section of the product documentation included with InstallBuilder.

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