Re: new task 'ants' required or not.

[Peter Reilly]

Sathyanarayana V. wrote:
Probelm with 'subant' is: it doesnt communicate/contribute to overall build status. subprojects may fail, but  the overall process will be successful. Wouldnt it contribute in over all build status.
 

This is now quite true,
If a subproject fails, subant will fail also.
With the -keep-going or -k option to ant,
if the subproject fails, subant will run the rest of the subprojects, 
but the overall build will still fail:

 <target name="badgood">
   <subant>
     <fileset dir=".">
       <include name="bad.xml"/>
       <include name="good.xml"/>
     </fileset>
   </subant>
 </target>
Generates:
Buildfile: subant.xml
badgood:
  [subant] File '/home/preilly/learning/ant/bad.xml' failed with message 
'Following error occured while executing this line
  [subant] /home/preilly/learning/ant/bad.xml:2: The content of elements must 
consist of well-formed character data or markup.'.
good:
    [echo] Good
Target 'badgood' failed with message 'Following error occured while executing 
this line
/home/preilly/learning/ant/bad.xml:2: The content of elements must consist of 
well-formed character data or markup.'.
BUILD FAILED
/home/preilly/learning/ant/subant.xml:8: Following error occured while 
executing this line
/home/preilly/learning/ant/bad.xml:2: The content of elements must 
consist of well-formed character data or markup.

Peter
Thanks,
Sathya

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:53 PM
To: Ant Developers List
Subject: Re: new task 'ants' required or not.
Steve Loughran wrote:
 

Sathyanarayana V. wrote:
   

Hi All,
   Recently,  as part of automating my project builds, I have used 
CruiseControl along with Ant.  Surprisingly, I didn't find any task 
to build/compile all the subprojects    of a project.  My purpose was 
to have  the compile time errors of all the subprojects as part of 
automated build report. The 'ant' task will stop building as soon as 
one subproject fails. I tried using java/exec tasks with 'failonerror 
'  attribute as false, but the problem with  this approach is that 
build status of subprojects is not available to the main build 
process and resulting Total build successful though subprojects are 
failing in-between.
     

OK
   

  So, I have written new task  called 'ants' and used for my 
automated builds. This task internally uses 'ant' only.  What I would 
like to know is: Can I post this task of mine to apache or Is there 
any existing task/workaround available for the above required behavior.
     

Ant 1.6 has '<subant> that wil bulk compile a project ... does this do 
what you want or are there changes you'd recommend?
   

Also ant 1.6 has a -keep-going which will continue exectuting targets 
that do not rely on the task that failed.
Peter

 

Thanks in advance
Sathya
     

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