# resources

[since 2.3] (Ant 1.7 required)

`ivy:resources` is an Ant resource collection, containing files found by an Ivy resolve, which then can be used with any task working with resources like `copy` or `import`.

This datatype shares the same attributes, child elements and behaviour of a post resolve task. It is not expected to be used as an Ant task though, only as a resource collection.

## Examples

    <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml"/>

Build a resource collection of every artifacts of all dependencies declared in `path/to/ivy.xml` file.

    <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" transitive="false"/>

Same as above, but with transitive dependencies disabled.

    <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" conf="default, test"/>

Build a resource collection of every artifacts of the dependencies declared in the configuration default and test of the `path/to/ivy.xml` file.

    <ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" type="jar"/>

Build a resource collection of every `jar` artifact of all dependencies declared in `path/to/ivy.xml` file.

    <ivy:resources organisation="apache" module="commons-lang" revision="2+" inline="true"/>

Build a resource collection of every artifacts of `commons-lang` module revision 2+ from the repository, with its dependencies.

    <ivy:resources>
        <dependency org="apache" module="commons-lang" rev="2+"/>
        <dependency org="apache" module="commons-logging" rev="1.1"/>
        <exclude org="apache" module="log4j"/>
    </ivy:resources>

Build a resource collection of every artifacts of both `commons-lang` and `commons-logging`, with their dependencies but not `log4j`.

    <ivy:resources>
        <dependency org="org.slf4j" module="slf4j" rev="1.6" conf="api,log4j"/>
    </ivy:resources>

Build a resource collection of every artifacts of the configurations `api` and `log4j` of `slf4j`.