Worked wonderfully, thanks!
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Vimil Saju <vimils...@yahoo.com> wrote: > You could also use the trycatch task from antcontrib. the try task has a > catch block that executes when any of the tasks within the try block fails. > > --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > From: Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: Do things based on project success or failure > To: "Ant Users List" <user@ant.apache.org> > Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:31 PM > > No problem Rob! The way I posted works great, I was just wondering if there > was > a more graceful way to do it. I think I can get the properties to pass as > well > with the echoproperties task... Thanks! > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "Echlin, Robert" <robert.ech...@windriver.com> > To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 1:29:18 PM > Subject: RE: Do things based on project success or failure > > Hi Eric, > I didn't get that ant was failing out on you. Sorry. > I will check on that. > > Rob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:elstonk...@yahoo.com] >> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:22 PM >> To: Ant Users List >> Subject: Re: Do things based on project success or failure >> >> Thanks Robert, I've already got the db stuff working using >> jdbc and <sql>. Of course with a mysql database, it didn't >> work until I added perms for the user from the IP that I'm >> talking to it on: >> >> grant all on dbname.* to 'username'@'ip.addy' identified by >> 'userpassword'; >> >> I don't see, however, how antcall or subant will solve my >> issue with being able to do something after the build fails. >> Ant turns tail and runs after a failure, there is no saying: >> onFailure DO... That's why I'm calling it from the exec task. >> Then I separate from the process and gather a return code on >> the other side... Maybe I'm missing something. >> >> Thanks, >> Eric >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: "Echlin, Robert" <robert.ech...@windriver.com> >> To: Ant Users List <user@ant.apache.org> >> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 10:02:02 AM >> Subject: RE: Do things based on project success or failure >> >> Hi Eric, >> Look up "subant" and "antcall" for a start. They are in "core tasks". >> If you put both tasks in the same xml file, you will use "antcall". >> >> Also, for your DB operation, look up "sql" task, which uses JDBC. >> >> Rob >> >> -- >> Rob Echlin, Documentation Systems Architect, Wind River >> direct: +1.613.270.5796 | robert.ech...@windriver.com >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:elstonk...@yahoo.com] >>> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:20 AM >>> To: Ant Users List >>> Subject: Re: Do things based on project success or failure >>> >>> Of course this presents me another issue. How do I gather >> up all of >>> the command line arguments that were passed to me so that I can >>> re-pass them to the next ant script. Is there a way to say: >>> <property name="allArgs" >>> value="allOfMyArgsThatWerePassedToMe"/>? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Eric >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Eric Fetzer <elstonk...@yahoo.com> >>> To: Ant Users <user@ant.apache.org> >>> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 9:02:14 AM >>> Subject: Do things based on project success or failure >>> >>> I have to update a database one way or another based on project >>> success or failure. So I'm messing around with the <exec> >> task with >>> errorproperty attribute. I'm trying to make it so that >> failure will >>> test one way vs. success testing another. The best thing I >> can come >>> up with is the following: >>> >>> <-----------------------------------------------------------------> >>> Build File 1: >>> >>> <project name="test" default="test"> >>> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/> >>> <target name="test"> >>> <exec dir="." executable="cmd.exe" errorproperty="returncode"> >>> <arg line="/c ant -f test2.xml -Dgood=${good}"/> >>> </exec> >>> <echo message="returncode is: ${returncode}"/> >>> >>> <if> >>> <equals arg1="${returncode}" arg2="" /> >>> <then> >>> <echo message="It succeeded"/> >>> </then> >>> <else> >>> <echo message="It failed"/> >>> </else> >>> </if> >>> </target> >>> </project> >>> >>> Build File 2: >>> >>> <project name="test2" default="test"> >>> <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml"/> >>> <target name="test"> >>> <if> >>> <equals arg1="${good}" arg2="true" /> >>> <then> >>> <echo message="Good!"/> >>> </then> >>> <else> >>> <echo message="Bad"/> >>> <fail/> >>> </else> >>> </if> >>> </target> >>> </project> >>> >>> </-----------------------------------------------------------------> >>> >>> So if I pass >ant -f test.xml -Dgood="true" >>> I end up in the success code. Or if I pass >ant -f test.xml >>> -Dgood="anythingElse" >>> I end up in the failure code. >>> >>> Does anyone have a more graceful way to do this? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Eric >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For >> additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
