Signing COD files with an Ant build script

[bdowling]

Hi all,

I'm developing a blackberry application in eclipse, and building my cod file with a ANT (and antenna) build script. Everything is working perfectly, and I can manually use the signature tool to sign the cod file. However, is there any way to automate the signing process?

Cheers, Ben

[Skipper_Joe]

you can run SignatureTool from ANT script automatically:

<java jar="path\to\SignatureTool.jar" fork="true" 
        dir="path\to\cod\files" failonerror="true">
    <arg line=" -a -c -C  *.cod"/>
</java>

but you still need to enter password manually in the popup window.

[bdowling]

Excellent - exactly what I was after!

Cheers

[jack_martynov]

Is there possibility to add pasword automatically? Maybe in 4.2 version?

[jack_martynov]

I wrote my own app that fills password into promt window.

[bdowling]

How about an ant task to automatically update the cod on the connected device?

[Skipper_Joe]

You mean run JavaLoader.exe from <exec> task? Something like this?

<exec executable="C:\Program Files\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 4.1.0"
         dir="path/to/cod/file" failonerror="true">
         <arg value="-u"/>
         <arg value="load"/>
         <arg value="HelloWorld.cod"/>
</exec>

It should work, but I didn't try it myself yet.

[bdowling]

Needed a few tiny changes but I got it working, thanks!

	<!-- Load to device -->
	<target name="load" depends="sign">

		<exec executable="${bb.buildjars.home}/JavaLoader.exe" dir="." failonerror="true">
			<arg value="-u" />
			<arg value="load" />
			<arg value="output/tocod/${codename}.cod" />
		</exec>
	</target>