David,
You may want to try the <antcallback> to bring back the value from a <antcall>
Later,
Ninju
----- Original Message ----
From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ant Apache User Group <user@ant.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:30:17 AM
Subject: How to preserve a property assigned via antcall on main build process?
Dear members,
I am figthing for avoiding to use <if> from ant contrib lib, but I guess for
solving this problem there is no other solution.
I have the following targets:
<target name="target" depends="target-pre"
unless ="target.skip">
...
</target>
Note: From working properly this target I need to compute the property
target.var.value (and this property could be assigned previoulsy if some target
needed such property before)
Now
<target name="target-pre" unless ="target.var.value">
<antcall target="compute-target1.var1"/>
<property name="target.var1.value" value="the value is: ${target.var}"/>
</target>
This is the best solution, but the problem comes from the fact that the
property computed on target compute-target1.var (property target.var) is not
assigned after antcall invokation, so it doesn't work.
but If I use instead of antcall, just dependences I get the value of target.var
properly
<target name="target-pre" unless ="target.var"
depends="compute-target.var">
<property name="target.var.value" value="the value is: ${target.var}"/>
</target>
what I don't like about this solution is that the dependences targets are
ALWAYS execute even if the property target.var was defined or not. This is a
simple case, but on my case the computation of target.var is a complex task, so
I have to run it always.
Using ant contrib it is inmidiatly using <if> task, but I don't want to add
more library dependence to my project.
Do you have any idea about how to solve this problem?
Thanks,
David
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