Sushi

Sushi is a simple Ant build intended to automate the packaging of Javascript code into commonjs compliant modules.

Specifically, it peforms 3 tasks:

1. Download JavaScript from a URL.
2. Wrap the code to create a module definition
3. Apply further patches (such as defining the module identifier).

The build has been designed to run both directly or form part of a larger build.

Usage

To use Sushi, simply import the sushi.xml into your Ant build.xml.

Define the package task and add use the <sushi /> element to add new targets.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="myApplication" default="all" basedir=".">

    <import file="/path/to/sushi.xml" />

    <target name="package">

        <sushi source="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.js" id="jquery-1.4" />

    </target>
</project>

Simply run with ant.

After the build is complete, the packaged files are available in the dist directory.

The target directory that the packages are built to can be configured by specifying the TARGET_DIR property.

ant -DTARGET_DIR=/some/other/path

Sushi has been tested with Ant 1.6.5 and 1.7.1. The single dependency, Ant-Contrib, is bundled with Sushi.

Todo

• Work out how to make the building from an archive process more generic
• Look at a better way to store the configuration of the build (which sources to load and so on).
• Consider making all build paths configurable (temp, templates etc)