.. 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. .. _`Ant`: http://ant.apache.org/ Ant tasks ========= DdlUtils comes with two `Ant`_ tasks that allow you to manipulate the database structure, insert data into the database, and to dump the database structure and data contained in it, to XML. Lets see examples for how to use them:: This snippet essentially uses the ``DdlToDatabaseTask`` task to create the a PostgreSQL database at ``//localhost/test``, establish the database structure (tables etc.) defined in the file ``src/schema/project-schema.xml`` in this database, and then inserts the data defined in ``src/data/data.xml``. Required for this to work is that both DdlUtils and the JDBC driver are available in the path specified by ``runtime-classpath``. In the above snippet, this path contains all JARs and ZIPs in sub-directory ``lib``. .. note:: Not every database platform supports creation of new databases via JDBC. Please refer to the documentation of the support for the individual databases :doc:`here `. The opposite direction is achieved via the ``DatabaseToDdlTask`` task:: Here, the database schema is retrieved via the specified JDBC driver and written to the file ``db-schema.xml``. Likewise, the data in the database is written to the file ``data.xml``. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 ddl-to-database-task database-to-ddl-task