And is it possible to pass parameters to goals? I need to execute the goal with a different value for a parameter, each time in a loop. From my googling on this, I see some subtle clues that make it seem like this is possible, but the actual examples never do it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Lukas Theussl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 12:03 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Maven1: How to use ant-contrib "foreach" in a > maven.xml goal > > It's antcall, not antCall. However, I don't think this works > with maven anyway, as maven has goals, not targets. You > should transform your targets into goals and use attainGoal > to call them. > > HTH, > -Lukas > > > Karr, David wrote: > > Duh. I should have known that. > > > > Going on, however, I seem to be doing something wrong when I use > > "antCall" in the forEach loop to call a target, or > something at a more > > basic level. The following is an excerpt showing the forEach loop > > that calls the target, and the target after it. > > > > <j:forEach items="${springContexts.iterator()}" > > var="springContext"> > > <echo message="springContext[${springContext}]"/> > > <ant:antCall target="processSpringContext" inheritAll="true"> > > <param name="file" value="${springContext}"/> > > </ant:antCall> > > </j:forEach> > > <ant:target name="processSpringContext"> > > <echo message="Processing the Spring context: ${file}"/> > > </ant:target> > > > > When I call this, the first "echo" shows the name of the first file > > (there's only file in the set), but the rest of the output is odd > > (somewhat elided): > > > > -------------- > > [echo] springContext[...\MyServiceContext.xml] > > <antCall inheritAll="true" target="processSpringContext"><param > > value="...\MyServiceContext.xml" > name="file"></param></antCall><target > > name="processSpringContext"> [echo] Processing the > Spring context: > > </target>castor:prepare-filesystem: > > -------------- > > > > It puts the "antCall" code from maven.xml into the output, > showing the > > substitution in the "value" attribute, but when it executes > the "echo" > > in the target, it prints blank for the parameter value. > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Lukas Theussl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:31 PM > >>To: Maven Users List > >>Subject: Re: Maven1: How to use ant-contrib "foreach" in a > maven.xml > >>goal > >> > >>You can use jelly's forEach tag [1], eg here is a snippet > used in the > >>m1 xdoc plugin: > >> > >> <fileScanner var="xmlFiles"> > >> <fileset dir="${maven.docs.src}"> > >> <patternset> > >> <include name="**/*.xml"/> > >> <exclude name="**/${maven.xdoc.navigation.file}" /> > >> </patternset> > >> </fileset> > >> </fileScanner> > >> <j:forEach var="file" items="${xmlFiles.iterator()}"> > >> ... > >> </j:forEach> > >> > >>HTH, > >>-Lukas > >> > >> > >>[1] http://commons.apache.org/jelly/tags.html > >> > >> > >>Karr, David wrote: > >> > >>>I have a set of targets in an Ant script that I'm trying to > >> > >>integrate > >> > >>>into a goal in subproject maven.xml. One of the steps is > >> > >>to iterate > >> > >>>over a list of files found in a directory, using the Ant-contrib > >>>"foreach" tag. This works fine in the Ant script, but when > >> > >>I do this > >> > >>>in my maven.xml file, when it executes the "foreach" tag, > >> > >>it seems to > >> > >>>want to find the specified target in a "build.xml" in the > >> > >>same directory. > >> > >>>I'm guessing Ant-contrib's Foreach tag wasn't built to > >> > >>allow for this > >> > >>>possibility. Is there a different way to do this that > will work in > >>>Maven 1? > >>> > >>> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > >> > >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
