Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread Matt Benson
On Jan 25, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:10 PM, wrote: >> So doesn't that mean it would NOT be part of the normal distrib? - Dave > > A Google search turned up this post, but he builds it from source, > http://wdarby.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-antlib-p

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread dave.alvarado
Cool. I went the macrodef route and everything worked - Dave > ---Original Message--- > From: Dominique Devienne > To: Ant Users List , dave.alvar...

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:10 PM, wrote: > So doesn't that mean it would NOT be part of the normal distrib? - Dave A Google search turned up this post, but he builds it from source, http://wdarby.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-antlib-props-in-ant-18.html I suppose 'props' can be considered an AntLib

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:10 PM, wrote: > ON the doc it mentions "external" to ANt ... [...] > So doesn't that mean it would NOT be part of the normal distrib? - Dave You might be right. Sorry, can't help more on this particular topic, as I mentioned I've never done it myself. The easiest is to

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM,   wrote: >> Then I pass in this command line argument to my script "-Denv=...".  So, in >> my ant script, how do I dynamically access a property using the ${env} >> param?  For example, if "-Denv=dev" i

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread dave.alvarado
ON the doc it mentions "external" to ANt ... With the 'props' antlib (external, but also from Ant) you could do the dereferencing with ${${anotherprop} - not just in the property task - instead everywhere in your buildfile (after registering the required property helper). ${${var}} = fo

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:58 PM, wrote: > Thanks, Dominique.  The nested properties (props) task seems like it will do > the job.  However, do you know where to download this thing?  The links don't > seem to have anything > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/properties.html > http://ant.apache.org

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread dave.alvarado
Thanks, Dominique. The nested properties (props) task seems like it will do the job. However, do you know where to download this thing? The links don't seem to have anything http://ant.apache.org/manual/properties.html http://ant.apache.org/faq.html#propertyvalue-as-name-for-property - Dave

Re: Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread Dominique Devienne
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, wrote: > Then I pass in this command line argument to my script "-Denv=...".  So, in > my ant script, how do I dynamically access a property using the ${env} param? >  For example, if "-Denv=dev" is passed in to the command line, what is a > generic way of acce

Possible to dynamically reference a property?

2011-01-25 Thread dave.alvarado
Hi, I'm using Ant 1.8. I load a properties file that loads define these properties ... dev.baseurl=http://devurl qa.baseurl=http://qaurl approval.baseurl=http://approvalurl staging.baseurl=http://stagingurl prod.baseurl=http://produrl Then I pass in this command line argument to my script "-De