On 2019-10-28, Gintautas Grigelionis wrote:
> The documentation of the script task states:
> "All items (tasks, targets, etc) of the running project are accessible from
> the script, using either their name or id attributes (as long as their
> names are considered valid Java identifiers, that is). "
> However, the following fails:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <project name="test" default="main" basedir=".">
> <target name="sub">
> <echo id="foo">Executing a task</echo>
> </target>
> <!-- tests the script stuff -->
> <target name="main">
> <script language="javascript"><![CDATA[
> foo.setMessage("I'm a foo!")
> sub.execute()
> ]]></script>
> </target>
> </project>
Does it work if you make main depend on sub?
> Surely there are more limitations?
Probably :-)
<script> is most likely one of the lesser used parts of Ant.
> Besides, failure modes are different in Rhino (unable to create
> engine) and Nashorn (reference not defined).
Are you sure "unable to create engine" is due to "foo" not being defined
and not an independent problem with rhino? In any case, I don't believe
Ant should try to understand the error messages provided by the
scripting engine but rather present them to the user as they are.
Stefan
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