Re: Checking if a Target Exists

________ From: Rob Seegel To: Ant Users List Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Checking if a Target Exists Steve, For my project I created a custom task that was basically an extension of runtarget (from ant-contrib), which worked *almost* the way I wa

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

Ant 1.8 has extension-points which provides something  similar to your use-case http://ant.apache.org/manual/targets.html From: Rob Seegel To: Ant Users List Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: Re: Checking if a Target Exists Steve,   For my

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

Steve, For my project I created a custom task that was basically an extension of runtarget (from ant-contrib), which worked *almost* the way I wanted. I wanted the following specific case: - core skeleton build process in one script, that contained hooks I could use to "extend" with one

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

You are right Steve, that was an error on my part.  From: Steve Amerige To: user@ant.apache.org Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 12:05 PM Subject: Re: Checking if a Target Exists Hi Vimil, Thanks for the code!  I'm pretty sure the fifth line of the s

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

t to true if the target 'mytarget' is present in the project. Otherwise it will not be set. From: Steve Amerige To: Ant Users List; Vimil Saju Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:27 AM Subject: Re: Checking if a Target Exists Hi Vimil, Thanks for the fe

RE: Checking if a Target Exists

Users List Subject: Re: Checking if a Target Exists Here is an example, I havent tested it though                               the scriptdef can be then invoked as folows the property 'targetExists' will be set to true if the target 'mytarget' is present in the project.

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

___ From: Steve Amerige To: Ant Users List ; Vimil Saju Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:27 AM Subject: Re: Checking if a Target Exists Hi Vimil, Thanks for the feedback.  Any specifics on just how to do what you mention (even if untested)? Thanks again, Steve Amerige SAS I

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

I was looking for a solution to this problem some time back :-). Didn't know someone else might run into the same thing. I resorted to calling the target without checking for its existence and ignoring the failure. No longer working on that stuff :-). Thanks Steve for asking and Vimil for suggesti

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

Hi Vimil, Thanks for the feedback. Any specifics on just how to do what you mention (even if untested)? Thanks again, Steve Amerige SAS Institute, Deployment Software Development On 11/3/2011 9:55 AM, Vimil Saju wrote: I think you can use the scriptdef task to do this. You can write a script

Re: Checking if a Target Exists

I think you can use the scriptdef task to do this. You can write a script within the scriptdef object to access the methods of the project object. The project object has methods to list the targets defined under the project, which you can use to test if a given target exists. Btw antcall does no