Hi guys,
Sorry to be bringing this subject up again, but I'm not getting the expected
behaviour. Firstly, I have read thr' previous discussions in the archive and
I think I understand how property set works, but I'm not getting what I
want!!. As an example, heres the test build file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- edited with XML Spy v3.5 NT (http://www.xmlspy.com) by Michael Dunphy
-->
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "ant-project.dtd">
<project name="test" default="">
<target name="test1">
<antcall target="test2"/>
<antcall target="test3"/>
</target>
<target name="test2">
<property name="srd.fetch.complete" value="true"/>
<echo message="the value is ${srd.fetch.complete}"/>
</target>
<target name="test3" if="srd.fetch.complete">
<echo message="the value is ${srd.fetch.complete}"/>
</target>
</project>
When I run it using: ant -verbose -buildfile test.xml test1
I get:
C:\TEMP>ant -verbose -buildfile test.xml test1
Ant version 1.3 compiled on March 2 2001
Buildfile: test.xml
Detected Java Version: 1.3
Detected OS: Windows 2000
parsing buildfile C:\TEMP\test.xml with URI = file:C:/TEMP/test.xml
resolving systemId: file:C:/TEMP/ant-project.dtd
Project base dir set to: C:\TEMP
Build sequence for target `test1' is [test1]
Complete build sequence is [test1, test3, test2]
test1:
Project base dir set to: C:\TEMP
parsing buildfile C:\TEMP\test.xml with URI = file:C:/TEMP/test.xml
resolving systemId: file:C:/TEMP/ant-project.dtd
Project base dir set to: C:\TEMP
Build sequence for target `test2' is [test2]
Complete build sequence is [test2, test3, test1]
test2:
[echo] the value is true
Project base dir set to: C:\TEMP
parsing buildfile C:\TEMP\test.xml with URI = file:C:/TEMP/test.xml
resolving systemId: file:C:/TEMP/ant-project.dtd
Project base dir set to: C:\TEMP
Build sequence for target `test3' is [test3]
Complete build sequence is [test3, test2, test1]
test3:
Skipped because property 'srd.fetch.complete' not set.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 second
C:\TEMP>
My first observation is why does it say "Complete build sequence is [test1,
test3, test2]"?
any insight would be much appreciated..
Thanks
Mick
PS: in the generated DTD file, a property is defined as
<!ATTLIST property
id ID #IMPLIED
refid IDREF #IMPLIED
name CDATA #IMPLIED
classpath CDATA #IMPLIED
file CDATA #IMPLIED
userproperty %boolean; #IMPLIED
resource CDATA #IMPLIED
environment CDATA #IMPLIED
classpathref IDREF #IMPLIED
taskname CDATA #IMPLIED
value CDATA #IMPLIED
location CDATA #IMPLIED
description CDATA #IMPLIED
>
but the docs do not specify these attributes, so are the docs
incorrect/incomplete?
