Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-28 Thread trad-ex
Hi Steve, Thanks a lot for your reply. You wrote: >Maybe echo isnt updating its string. Just go Project.log() instead. What does it mean ? I try to apend the code below: project.log( echoval,"XXX", Packages.org.apache.tools.ant.Project. MSG_WARN); But this doesn't work,,, I try to do MSG_DEBUG

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-26 Thread Steve Loughran
trad-ex wrote: Hi Scot, Hi folks, Sorry for my late response & poor English. I try to organize the discussion on this thread. As originally questions by other person, how can he pass values from a script into a target in spite of the immutablity of properties in Ant ? A part of his script is

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-26 Thread trad-ex
Hi Scot, Thanks a lot for your reply. What you mentioned as "ant xml task" means tasks without using ScriptTask, is it right ? In fact, my project (not ant project!) uses the customized Ant, and in it, the Task inherited from ScriptTask has a great importance.. So, I try to describe the Ant sc

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-26 Thread Scot P. Floess
I've never used the task...so I really don't have an answer for you...

I do have a question...is there a reason you are using script versus ant xml tasks? I'm guessing its just to see how things work?



Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-26 Thread trad-ex
Hi Scot, Hi folks, Sorry for my late response & poor English. I try to organize the discussion on this thread. As originally questions by other person, how can he pass values from a script into a target in spite of the immutablity of properties in Ant ? A part of his script is below:

RE: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-19 Thread Dick, Brian E.
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:09 PM To: Ant Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with script task and properties Hi Scot, Thanks a lot for your reply. Yes, I've already known that behavior of "Variable" Task. What I would like to know is the proper coding

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread trad-ex
Hi Scot, Thanks a lot for your reply. Yes, I've already known that behavior of "Variable" Task. What I would like to know is the proper coding in Script Task by using Javascript. I wonder my conding doesn't make sense ? Best Regards, trad-ex >I think the idea here is to use from ant contrib.

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread Scot P. Floess
I think the idea here is to use from ant contrib. It definitely works and allows one to reset properties... For instance: Will yield: [echo] my-var = foo [echo] my-var = bar [echo] my-var = alpha Above, the variable is being changed... trad-ex

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread trad-ex
Hi Steve, I tried to use "Variables" Task in ant-contrib, but it replicate the same result as Dick did. My build.xml is:

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread Steve Loughran
Dick, Brian E. wrote: I have just a day to get this working. These are production machines, so I can't deploy anything to them. I'm using sshexec to remotely ping from a unix host and using rcmd to remotely ping from a windows host. I redirect the output from these tasks to a file and then use l

RE: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread Dick, Brian E.
#x27;s what it takes, so be it. Thanks for your help. -Original Message- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:25 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Problem with script task and properties Dick, Brian E. wrote: > This is a simplified script

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread Steve Loughran
Dick, Brian E. wrote: This is a simplified script. I need to execute the script body several hundred times in a loop. I also need to run about twenty of them in parallel. Here's my business problem and the pseudo code for the solution. Maybe you can suggest another approach. Problem: Simultaneou

RE: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread Dick, Brian E.
NS ip address change on twenty remote hosts (window and unix). Solution: -Original Message- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:57 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Problem with script task and properties Dick, Br

Re: Problem with script task and properties

2006-05-18 Thread Steve Loughran
Dick, Brian E. wrote: I need to pass values from a script into a target, but the immutability of properties is getting in the way. I can't use the antcall task in my script, because I eventually need to return a value from the target to the script too. Here's a simplified test script. use and