Hello!
In essence, I would like to know how to define a global property conditionally,
and then have it available to all build files via <import>.
Now the details:
I have a build.common.xml file with all global properties and paths defined. I
import it into my main build and component build files via <import>, and this
makes everything that is defined in the common file available to all other
build
files.
build.common.xml:
<property name="build.classes" value="${build}/classes"/>
...
<path id="compile.classpath">
<pathelement location="${build}/classes"/>
<path refid="jdk.classpath"/>
<fileset dir="${lib}">
<include name="**/*.jar"/>
</fileset>
...
Then, I have a main build.xml that calls a few component build.xml via <ant
file=...> call.
If I <import> the build.common.xml into all my build files - I have all
properties and paths available to all builds.
It all works great, but now I want to have the build.classes property set
conditionally, based on the build mode (dev vs. release). Ideally, I would like
something similar to the C #ifdef macros:
build.common.xml:
if
mode='dev'
then
<property name="build.classes" value="${build}/dev/classes"/>
else
<property name="build.classes" value="${build}/release/classes"/>
I can do the <if> logic if I define this property in the main build, for
example, as part of some <init> task. But, it means that the property is not
global anymore, and, which is more important, I cannot define my paths in the
build.common.xml based on the value of this property. At least I could not
figure out yet a way to do it...
So, I was pondering over a few options:
1. define all properties like that and paths in the main build.xml and pass
them
as parameters to all component builds - very involved and inflexible...
2. define a target <init> in the build.common.xml that defines all those
properties and paths - and make all builds call it (or depend on it) - again,
very involved in terms of refactoring my existing builds, and inflexible.
3. any other way???
If only I could just define that one global property conditionally! I feel like
I'm missing some basic core concept here....
Any pointers?
Thanks!
Marina
