How is this different from just

    <property name="SomeProperty" value="Some Default Value"/>

?

-- Niklas Matthies


On Tue 2010-11-30 at 14:11h, Scot P. Floess wrote on user:
>
> Here is something I like to use...  I macrodef'd it out so I can call it  
> for many properties that require default values...
>
>     <macrodef name="default">
>         <attribute name="property"/>
>         <attribute name="default"/>
>         <attribute name="description" default=""/>
>
>         <sequential>
>             <condition property="@{property}" value="@{default}">
>                 <not>
>                     <isset property="@{name}"/>
>                 </not>
>             </condition>
>         </sequential>
>     </macrodef>
>
> This works with stock Ant (meaning you don't need Ant-contrib or any 
> third party libraries)...
>
> To use:
>
> <default property="SomeProperty" default="Some Default Value"/>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, ritchie wrote:
>
>>
>> My ant script takes a value for a property at runtime(-Denv=xxx), if the
>> argument is not passed i want the value to be set as a default arbitary
>> value. How to accomplish this?
>>
>
> -- 
> Scot P. Floess
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