This is great advice, and certainly one way to do the deploy-all. I would like to share another option...
I once worked in situation where most of our environments were clustered, having two servers per environment. In this case I would create a "deploy-each" target, to deploy to one server, and wrap it with a "deploy" target using Ant-Contrib's <foreach> task to loop over the list of servers in the environment. If you write you build.xml as such, then "all" becomes just another environment with more servers in the list. Of course after, writing this up and realizing that you have different deployment processes (nfs,ssh) for different environment, this may not work so well for you. But now that I have written this, it would be a shame not to share it anyway. -Rob Anderson > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Goktepe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:05 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: Trying to do things the "Ant way" > > There is a loss of performance when you use antcall in large, > complex builds. It also makes target dependencies less clear. > But it's the only way I know of to call a specific target > based on a value obtained at runtime. In most other cases, > it's much better to use the 'depends' > attribute of 'target' with the exact target names. > > To achieve a deploy-all case, you could have a separate > target (optimally in a separate script) that makes 'ant' > calls into the main deployment script: > > <target name="deploy-all"> > <ant antfile="mydeploymentscript.xml" inheritAll="false"> > <property name="envname" value="stage" /> > </ant> > <ant antfile="mydeploymentscript.xml" inheritAll="false"> > <property name="envname" value="integ" /> > </ant> > > ... etc > </target> > > -Andrew > > On 7/28/06, Jamie Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the quick response. I have a couple of follow-ups. > > > > I've gotten the impression from reading other posts that > <antcall> is > > to be avoided, so I'm wondering about its use here. > > > > The other question I have is: How would I satisfy the > deploy-all use > > case while reusing as much of the script as practical? > > > > Thanks again, > > Jamie > > > > On 7/28/06, Andrew Goktepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Oops. s/<properties file/<property file/ > > > > > > On 7/28/06, Andrew Goktepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > We use a separate properties file for each > environment, and have > > common > > > > property names. Instead of integ.transfertype, > stage.transfertype, > > etc, > > > I > > > > would just have 'transfertype' and it would have > different values > > > > in > > the > > > > different files. Then the Ant script has targets based on the > > > > possible values of the property, and one generic parent > target that calls them. > > > > > > > > Example: > > > > <properties file="${envname}.properties" /> <target > name="deploy"> > > > > <antcall target="deploy-${transfertype}" /> > </target> <target > > > > name="deploy-nfs"> ... </target> <target name="deploy-ssh"> ... > > > > </target> > > > > > > > > envname determines which environment-specific properties file > > > > needs to > > > be > > > > read. > > > > > > > > This is a more scalable solution. Adding a new environment is as > > simple > > > as > > > > creating a new properties file. > > > > > > > > This assumes the build has already occurred and you can > make run > > > > the deployment Ant script separately for each environment. > > > > > > > > -Andrew > > > > > > > > On 7/28/06, Jamie Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm having a problem trying to grok the "ant way" to > do things > > > > > (i.e > > ., > > > > > without conditionals). I just got started with Ant a > couple days > > ago, > > > so > > > > > > > > > > take that into consideration. > > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to produce a well-factored script to handle code > > deployment > > > > > to > > > > > remote servers. > > > > > > > > > > Tasks: > > > > > * deploy-integ > > > > > * deploy-stage > > > > > * deploy-prod > > > > > * deploy-all (all of the above) > > > > > > > > > > Here's the problem: Depending on the set of servers, some are > > > available > > > > > via > > > > > SSH, others are available via NFS, and I'd like the > script to be > > > > > generalizable enough to specify the transfer type in the > > > > > properties file, along with the (potentially) varying paths > > > > > among servers. > > > > > > > > > > Here's a stab at the properties file: > > > > > ----------------------------------- > > > > > svn.url=http://myhost/myrepos/myproj > > > > > > > > > > integ.transfertype=nfs > > > > > stage.transfertype=ssh > > > > > prod.transfertype=ssh > > > > > > > > > > # a nfs basepath would look like //webdev/websites # an ssh > > > > > basepath would look like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/docroot > > > > > integ.basepath=//devserver/docroot > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :/path/to/docroot > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/docroot > > > > > > > > > > integ.proj.wwwroot=childwelfare > > > > > stage.proj.wwwroot=childwelfare > > > > > prod.proj.wwwroot=childwelfare > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > Here are a couple of the salient tasks (see inline comments): > > > > > > > > > > <target name="deploy-integ"> > > > > > <deploy basepath="integ.basepath" proj.wwwroot=" > > > > > integ.proj.wwwroot" > > > > > transfertype="integ.transfertype" /> > > > > > </target> > > > > > > > > > > <macrodef name="deploy"> > > > > > <attribute name="args" /> > > > > > <attribute name="basepath" /> > > > > > <attribute name="proj.wwwroot" /> > > > > > <attribute name="transfertype" /> > > > > > <!-- I'd like to do it the "right way, and avoid "if", > > > > > but > > > don't > > > > > know how --> > > > > > <!-- Not to mention that I can't even put the "if" in > > macrodef, > > > > > so > > > > > it doesn't work anyway --> > > > > > <if> > > > > > <equals arg1="@{transfertype}" arg2="ssh" /> > > > > > <then> > > > > > <property name="@{args}" value="-e ssh > -Cacvz @{ > > > > > local.buildDir}/* @{basepath}/@{proj.wwwroot}" /> > > > > > </then> > > > > > <else> > > > > > <property name="@{args}" value="-av > > > > > @{local.buildDir > > }/ > > > > > @{basepath}/@{proj.wwwroot}/" /> > > > > > </else> > > > > > </if> > > > > > <echo message="rsync ${args}" /> > > > > > <exec executable="rsync"> > > > > > <arg line="${args}" /> > > > > > </exec> > > > > > </macrodef> > > > > > > > > > > What's the right approach? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Jamie > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
