Hi, all.
One can use the "property" elements of an "ant" task to set properties
within the execution of that task.
As best as I can tell, though, if the property has not been set, it will
be set within the task. I would much prefer that the property only get
set if it was set in the original:
vis
<ant target="blend" dir="." antfile="blender.xml" inheritall="false">
<property name="juice" value="orange"/>
</ant>
and then within the blender.xml file, I might have
<target name="blend">
<property name="juice" value="vaguely green juice"/>
... more stuff
</ant>
Were there an "if" available, then I could use that to pass a property
into the ant task, without setting it when it was not set to start with.
<ant target="blend" dir="." antfile="blender.xml" inheritall="false">
<property name="juice" value="orange" if="juice"/>
</ant>
Were I not using inheritall=false, then the called ant file would see
the property as defined if it was defined here, but that is not an
option if I use inheritall.
As an alternative, if we had a nested "inheritproperty" element that
forwarded just the property named, I could accomplish this end.
Thoughts?
Scott
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