Thanks everyone. I got it to work by using target/depends, no AntCall.
Definitely I will request new resources to be added as suggested for a
long term resolution.
Here is how I did it. Please let me know if you have better ideas.
Becky
(1) The problem:
================================
<target name="setup-properties">
...........
<AntCall target="input-1"/>
<AntCall target="input-2"/>
<AntCall target="input-3"/>
<fail message="Missing input property" unless="small"/>
</target>
.....
<target name="A" if="input-1"
<property name="small" value="a"/>
</target>
<target name="B" if="input-2"
<property name="small" value="b"/>
</target>
<target name="C" if="input-3"
<property name="small" value="c"/>
</target>
Running Ant from command line with various property name:
Ant setup-properties -Dinput-1=
Ant setup-properties -Dinput-2=
Ant setup-properties -Dinput-3=
But the prpoerty defined in the target invoked by AntCall, won't be seen
outside of AntCall's taget.
(2) The fix:
====================
<target name="setup-properties" depends="set-small">
.......................
<fail message="Missing input property" unless="small"/>
</target>
<target name="set-small" depends="A,B,C"/>
<target name="A" if="input-1"
<property name="small" value="a"/>
</target>
<target name="B" if="input-2"
<property name="small" value="b"/>
</target>
<target name="C" if="input-3"
<property name="small" value="c"/>
</target>
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Anson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 6:23 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Need help for ["AntCall" cannot return properties]
I added the AntCallBack and AntFetch tasks from antelope to ant-contrib.
AntCallBack works like AntCall, but let's you get back some properties,
and AntFetch does the same thing for the Ant task. You'd need to get
them out of ant-contrib's cvs, as they are not in the current release.
Ant-Contrib is at http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net. Alternatively, you
can download the compiled tasks from the antelope project at
http://antelope.sourceforge.net. The tasks are identical other than
package name. Docs are on-line at
http://antelope.sourceforge.net/manual/bk03.html.
Dale
Shatzer, Larry wrote:
> Have you looked around ant-contrib to see if they offer a task that
> might suit you?
>
> http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/
>
> Particularly <if> and <switch>.
>
> -- Larry
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Chen Becky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 2:57 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Need help for ["AntCall" cannot return properties]
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Yes, I am new to ANT, may be you all are familiar with this. By
>>researching from archive emails, I think the statement "AntCall cannot
>>return properties" is true. But there must be a way to setup a
>>property to accomplish what I need to
>>do below.
>>
>><-- I want to use AntCall to setup a property which based on another
>>property with various name --> <AntCall target="input-1"/>
>><AntCall target="input-2"/>
>><AntCall target="input-3"/>
>>......
>>......
>><target name="A" if="input-1"
>> <property name="small" value="a"/>
>></target>
>><target name="B" if="input-2"
>> <property name="small" value="b"/>
>></target>
>><target name="C" if="input-3"
>> <property name="small" value="c"/>
>></target>
>>
>>Thanks a lot.
>>Becky
>>
>
>
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