Hello Rhino,
If the property server.choice is set, the input task
will be skipped. Well, it might be not your case -
just be sure that you do not set server.choice in
advance.
Also can you run your script from the command line -
if it works correctly than the problem is in Eclipse.
There is some machinery behind <input> task. It does
not read directly from System.in (the standard input
stream); instead it delegates reading the input to the
so called InputHandlers (part of Ant API). I think
that Eclipse has its own InputHandler which pops up an
dialog - I have never used him and never read its code
so I am not sure how it works. I hope some of the
Eclipse guys here will be able to help you more.
Regards
Ivan
--- Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been having an intermittent problem with the
> 'input' task for the past
> several days. I'm baffled by what causes it and
> would like to know if anyone
> else has seen this or knows of a solution/workaround
> to keep it from
> happening?
>
> I'm using Ant 1.6.5 in Eclipse 3.1.1 and my problem
> is simple: my 'input'
> task _occasionally_ fails to bring up the input
> dialog. Even with -verbose
> and -debug in my startup parameters, the Ant output
> simply shows the name of
> the target that contains the input task with no
> other output, like so:
> getserver:
>
>
> The build doesn't seem to succeed _or_ fail; there
> is nothing after the
> 'getserver:' line. However, the build seems to have
> ended because I can
> launch it again without a problem.
>
> I was getting this problem very persistently a few
> days ago, then it went
> away suddenly. Now it is back. I can't think of
> anything I have done in my
> build script or my environment to cause my 'input'
> task to work or fail
> intermittently; the target is itself has been
> working unchanged for a couple
> of years until this problem started the other day.
> Here is the target:
>
> <target name="getserver" description="Determine
> which server is the target">
> <input message="Which server should receive the
> files? 1. Silo 2. Bongo"
> validargs="1,2"
> addproperty="server.choice"
> defaultvalue="2"/>
> <condition property="servername" value="Silo">
> <equals arg1="${server.choice}" arg2="1"/>
> </condition>
> <condition property="servername" value="Bongo">
> <equals arg1="${server.choice}" arg2="2"/>
> </condition>
> </target>
>
> Can anyone help me figure out how to get the 'input'
> task working _all_ of
> the time? This is really messing me up. I have
> several input tasks to prompt
> for input that should not be hard-coded in the
> script for security reasons.
>
> Rhino
>
>
>
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