Oops,
Look like the "spawn" attribute route won't work :-)
With "spawn=true" the <exec> task does NOT "block" and
wait for the executable to finish. I need to have the
script proceed only after the execuatable is finished,
so we down to the <redirector> and/or moving to 1.6.3
--- Ninju Bohra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought about using the output attribute, but what
> value would I use for when they DO want the output
> to
> come to the console? I don't want to have the
> <exec>
> task duplicated (differing only in one have the
> output="NUL" and the other not using the output
> attribute) and then a set of conditions controlling
> which <exec> to invoke.
>
> Actually, I am thinking of using the spawn attribute
> instead. The default value of the ${hide_output}
> property would be 'false', the CC script would set
> the
> ${hide_output} to 'true' when it invoke the script
> and
> the single task call would be:
>
> <exec executable="..." spawn=${hide_output}>
> <arg line...>
> .
> .
> .
> </exec>
>
> What do you think?
> --- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you are using a recent version of Ant, you
> could
> > redirect to your null device (a file). Since
> you're
> > on Windows (I assume from the backslashed paths),
> > the
> > file will be NUL . You could do some conditional
> > stuff based on OS to choose NUL or /dev/null as
> your
> > null device and be cross-platform, but basically
> > <exec
> > output="NUL"> should work on Windows.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Matt
> >
> > --- Ninju Bohra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > On my Windows Box, I have a series of <exec>
> calls
> > > to
> > > do a set of Orcale database operations, one of
> the
> > > calls look like:
> > >
> > > <exec executable="imp.exe">
> > > <arg value="${import.login}"/>
> > > <arg
> > > value="file=${export.dir}\DataExport.dmp"/>
> > > <arg
> > > value="log=${export.dir}\DataImport.log"/>
> > > <arg
> > > value="parfile=${export.dir}\fromuser.txt"/>
> > > <arg value="touser=${import.user}"/>
> > > <arg value="BUFFER=32000000"/>
> > > <arg value="RECORDLENGTH=65535"/>
> > > <arg value="IGNORE=N"/>
> > > <arg value="GRANTS=N"/>
> > > <arg value="ROWS=Y"/>
> > > <arg value="COMMIT=N"/>
> > > <arg value="INDEXES=Y"/>
> > > <env key="NLS_LANG"
> > > value="AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8"/>
> > > </exec>
> > >
> > > Now everything works fine with the program
> > > generating
> > > a lot of output to the console. This output is
> > > useful
> > > when the call initiated by a user, but we also
> > have
> > > an
> > > automated CruiseControl process that uses the
> same
> > > targets to load it's database and the problem is
> > > that
> > > all that output (2k+ lines) ends up cluttering
> the
> > > final CC email that gets generated.
> > >
> > > So is there any simple parameter that I can send
> > to
> > > the <exec> task to tell it to suppress sending
> the
> > > output the to System.out?
> > >
> > >
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