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[*__since 2.3__*] (*__Ant 1.7 required__*)

`ivy:resources` is an Ant link:https://ant.apache.org/manual/Types/resources.html#collection[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 link:../use/postresolvetask{outfilesuffix}[post resolve task]. It is not expected to be used as an Ant task though, only as a resource collection.

== Examples

[source,xml]
----
<ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml"/>
----

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

'''

[source,xml]
----
<ivy:resources file="path/to/ivy.xml" transitive="false"/>
----

Same as above, but with transitive dependencies disabled.

'''

[source,xml]
----
<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.

'''

[source,xml]
----
<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.

'''

[source,xml]
----
<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.

'''

[source,xml]
----
<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`.

'''

[source,xml]
----
<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`.