----- Original Message ----- From: "David McTavish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Conditional echo
> > Hi all, > I was wondering if anybody could provide some insight in how I could > conditionaly "echo" a message. Basically, what I would like to do is echo a > message if the target was called from within the same build script > (build.xml), but not if it was called from an external source. I was > thinking I could pass in a property when I make external calls to set the > level of verbosity to off. > > ie: > <ant dir=".." target="my.target" inheritall="false"> > <property name="verbose" value="false" /> > </ant> > > However, I'm not sure how I can write my echo tasks to handle this > conditional property. I'd really like to avoid having to write two separate > targets for every 'echo' that is based on the if/unless conditions if > possible. you can use the current level attribute of <echo>, set it to info for info level echoing (normal), or to verbose or debug to hide the messages till the user hits -verbose, -debug. > > ../build.xml: > > <property name="verbose" value="true"/> > > <target name="my.target"> > <echo message="status report 1"/> > </target> > > > > thx, > d. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:ant-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
