Both antcontrib[1] and antelope[2] provide if/else constructs.  Either
of these would work for your situation.

Dale

[1] http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net
[2] http://antelope.tigris.org


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Matt Benson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> --- On Thu, 9/24/09, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Feature request: ifbool/unlessbool
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:27 AM
>> On 2009-09-24, Francis GALIEGUE
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > But ideally, I'd like to use these properties all the
>> time, with
>> > boolean values. Say, for example, if I have nomail set
>> to 1 or true,
>> > then no mail is sent; if it's 0 or false, then the
>> mail is sent. And
>> > the target would then read:
>>
>> > <target name="junit-send-report"
>> unlessbool="nomail"/>
>>
>> Ant 1.8.0[1] and its new PropertyHelper API will help you
>> here with the
>> plain if/unless attributes.
>>
>> unless will pass if the property is either not set at all
>> (current Ant
>> behavior) or is set and PropertyHelper expands it to
>> Boolean.FALSE.
>>
>> if will pass if the property is set to anything but
>> Boolean.FALSE.
>>
>> This only works if you are using a PropertyEvaluator that
>> returns
>> Boolean instances - and there currently is none, but it
>> would be trivial
>> to write one.
>>
>> Check out Ant's trunk if you want to experiment with it.
>>
>
> I was thinking, "wow, who did that?" but as it turns out, I did it.  :P
>
> -Matt
>
>> Stefan
>>
>> [1] there still are a few details of changes in trunk that
>> need to be
>>     hashed out before we can plan that release.
>>
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