Hi there,

I am having trouble using third party ant tasks with nested elements, from the 
Ant API. For example the ant-contrib IfTask and the svnant SvnTask.

I am able to use both of these tasks in build scripts without a problem, when 
running ant from the command line. But I want to use them from the Ant API. 
However when I do this I get an error similar to below, which is clearly not 
correct:

 build.xml:215: Class net.sf.antcontrib.logic.IfTask doesn't support the nested 
"equals" element.

I'm running:

RedHat 9
Java 1.4.2 (build 1.4.2_03-b02)
Ant 1.6.0 (compiled on December 18 2003)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Gerry


The section of the build that is failing is trivial:

  <if>
    <equals arg1="yes" arg2="no" />
    <then>
      <echo message="same"/>
    </then>
    <else>
      <echo message="different"/>
    </else>
  </if>

And the taskdef is declared as below:

<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
  <classpath refid="antlib.classpath" />
</taskdef>


I've also tried the following declarations, which makes no difference

<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
  <classpath>
    <pathelement location="/full/path/to/ant-contrib.jar" />
  </classpath>
</taskdef>

<taskdef name="svn" classname="net.sf.antcontrib.logic.IfTask">
  <classpath refid="antlib.classpath" />
</taskdef>


The relevent API code is:

String buildFile = "/path/to/build/file";
String buildDir = "/path/to/build/dir";

try {

  project.fireBuildStarted();
  project.init();

  project.setBaseDir( new File( buildDir ));
  project.setUserProperty( "ant.file", buildFile);
  project.setUserProperty( "ant.version", Main.getAntVersion());

  ProjectHelper projHelper = new ProjectHelperImpl();
  projHelper.parse(project, new File(buildFile));
  project.executeTarget( target );

} catch( Throwable ex) {

error = ex;
} finally {

  project.fireBuildFinished(error);

}



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