1) Put your properties in a file called 'antproject.properties' (or
something),
and then have all of your build files reference it using
<property file="antproject.properties" />
in each build file. Be careful, though, because if you write it like
I just did, ANT will look for a file called "antproject.properties"
in
the same directory as the build file it's currently processsing,
which
is probably not what you want. We have defined a ROOTDIR
property in out ANT wrapper, so that we may then specify
<property file="${ROOTDIR}/antproject.properties" />
and ANT looks in the right place.
2) You don't need to do this, such a thing already exists. Enter
ant -projecthelp
to see a list of all valid targets. (However, I just tried it on a
build.xml
which contains a custom task, and I got a nasty message insisting
that
the class corresponding to the task couldn't be found. Hmmm).
--dave
"Guthrie, John"
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Subject: Ant design question(s) - #2
03/18/2002 12:11
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Please respond to
"Ant Users List"
I am converting some old makefile-based builds to ant and I have a couple
of
design questions... here's the second
I want to have a "help" target that will list out all the possible targets
in the build.xml. There are three ways I think I could implement it, from
easiest-and-ugliest getting more elegant (my opinion) but also requiring
more work. Again, suggestions and opinions are welcome. Ideas are:
A. just put in a bunch of "echo" tasks stating what I want stated. Makes
for a big ugly target
B. put help info in a separate file and write a "cat" taskdef (couldn't
find one in my ant distro, 1.4.1) that cat's it out. build.xml looks much
nicer
C. write a taskdef that gets an enumeration of all targets in a build.xml
(I figure that is accessible somewhere in ant), maybe matches up targets
with a property file of explanations and generates a help statement from
that (targets that are not in the prop file get listed with no
explanation).
This one is obviously a bit more work.
thnaks!
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