I am using ant to combine multiple independant build processes under one umbrella. Once I get beyond some initialization which applies to the whole process, I'd like to make the umbrella build tolerant of failures within the previously independant builds. Furthermore, in the event of a failure in one of the builds, I'd like to e-mail notification of the failure, along with an attached log of the build. I am not aware of a way to do this with the existing Ant functionality. If I am wrong in this, please enlighten me. What I propose to accomodate this is an <isolatefailure> task. It would contain a <sequential> element, implemented by a private NestedSequential class which implements TaskContainer, ala MacroDef. However, the IsolateFailure class' execute method would catch any BuildException, and not rethrow it. This would isolate tasks following the <isolatefailure> task from the failure, and allow them to continue executing. <isolatefailure> would also accept an optional <executeonfailure> element which, like <sequential>, holds nested tasks, but these would only be executed if a BuildException was caught. This would accomodate the requirement for special processing in the event of a failure. <executeonfailure> would take an optional errorproperty="propertname" parameter, which would identify the name of a property which should be set with the message from the BuildException before executing the tasks nested within the <executeonfailure>. I'm looking for feedback on this idea before I start work on it...
-------------------------------------------------------- David S. Johnson "Oh scholar, if your scholarship benefits not Mankind, you deserve not admiration but contempt." -- Kahlil Gibran
