I'm using the please build tool and I'm having trouble using the target|file syntax with a filegroup. Specifically, I want to use specific files from the filegroup output in a genrule, but the syntax doesn't seem to work. Here's an example of what I'm trying to do:
# subdir/BUILD.plz
this = package_name()
a = text_file(
name = 'a_file',
content = "aaaaaaaaa",
)
b = text_file(
name = 'b_file',
content = "bbbbbbbbb",
)
c = text_file(
name = 'c_file',
content = "ccccccccc",
)
filegroup(
name = this,
srcs = {
'A': [a],
'B': [b],
'C': [c],
},
visibility = ['PUBLIC']
)
# BUILD.plz
sub = '@//subdir'
a_and_c_concat = genrule(
name = 'a_and_c_concat',
srcs = {
'A': [f'{sub}|A'],
'C': [f'{sub}|C'],
},
outs = ["out"],
cmd = """
set -eux
cat "${SRCS_A}" "${SRCS_C}" > "${OUTS}"
""",
visibility = ['PUBLIC'],
)
It does the expected behavior if I change the filegroup
to be a genrule
and 're-export' srcs
to outs
like so:
# subdir/BUILD.plz
...
genrule(
name = this,
srcs = {
'A': [a],
'B': [b],
'C': [c],
},
outs = {
'A': ['a'],
'B': ['b'],
'C': ['c'],
},
cmd = """
set -eux
cp "${SRCS_A}" "${OUTS_A}"
cp "${SRCS_B}" "${OUTS_B}"
cp "${SRCS_C}" "${OUTS_C}"
""",
visibility = ['PUBLIC']
)
Is there a way to use the target|file
syntax with filegroup in Please build, or is there another way to achieve the same effect another way?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
This isn't implemented at the moment, but I think it's a reasonable thing for Please to do.
Filegroups are just a thin wrapper around
build_rule()
, so they accept all the same arguments, however they don't expose named sources as named outputs. I've created an issue here to track this as a feature request: https://github.com/thought-machine/please/issues/2701