In general, your "workaround" is standard operating procedure. However,
someday you may find that you *really* do need to make an antcall and
that you *really* need to propagate the the properties from the caller
to the callee. Stefan says this is impossible, I claim he isn't devious
enough! :)
Here's my idea:
<target name="callee">
<!-- Let's set some properties for the caller -->
<propertyfile file="callee.properties">
<entry key="callee.property1" value="value1"/>
<entry key="callee.property2" value="value2"/>
</propertyfile>
</target>
<target name="caller">
<antcall target="callee"/>
<property file="callee.properties"/>
</target>
Here you see 'caller' calls 'callee', who defines properties and stores
them in a property file, and that on return 'caller' can read those
properties from the file.
Note that propertyfile is an optional task.
-- don
--- Jamie Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. The workaround for me is to place those targets in the init
> attribute. i.e,
>
> <target name="all" description="Compile all code, all versions and
> deploy"
> depends="pc,palm">
> </target>
>
> Now, "ant all compile" works fine. Perhaps the <antcall> or
> <property>
> documentation could be updated to explain this issue.
>
> Jamie
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 27 June 2001 11:10
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Properties not set properly after <antcall>
> >
> >
> > Jamie Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Why do properties in a target only get set if the target is
> called
> > > from the cmd-line or init, but aren't set when called using
> antcall?
> >
> > They are set, but only for the duration of the antcall. When you
> use
> > <antcall>, you get a copy of your current project and work on that
> -
> > there is no way to feed back information from that copy to your
> > original project.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
>
>
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