On Sep 26, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Marina wrote:
> 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>.
>
What I do is supply a -Dtarget=Debug or Release via the commandline which
causes a build.properties file to be built with useful things like
build.number, build.time, build.date, build.machine, build.type and so on.
<target name="init" depends="set_flags,announce,env.. ">
<property file="build.number"/>
<delete file="build.properties"/>
<propertyfile comment="Build Information"
file="build.properties">
<entry key="build.number"
value="${build.number}"/>
<entry key="build.version"
value="${version}"/>
<entry key="temp.dir"
value="${temp.dir.path}"/>
<entry key="build.host"
value="${env.COMPUTERNAME}"/>
<entry key="build.user"
value="${user.name}"/>...
All my subservient build files just import this file <property
file="${root.dir}/metadata/build.properties"/> - oh and debug builds copy it
into the dist directory too.. That way I have a chance to know on a test
machine where/when/who built the failing jar!
root.dir
|____metadata
| |__ build.number
| |__ build.properties
|____Source jar1
| |__ build.xml
|____Source jar2
| |__ build.xml
Cheers
Graham
> 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
