Meanwhile a few things to remember: - if you want targets to execute in a specific order, you have to set up their dependencies appropriately. Targets that are not directly dependent upon each other are not guaranteed to execute in any particular order. - properties are immutable. Once set, you can't change them.
Good luck. On Oct 29, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Rhino wrote: > > I was afraid you were going to say that. It'll take a while to obfuscate the > parts that I don't want to make public. I'll send it along tomorrow. > > -- > Rhino > > On 2011-10-29 22:11, Vimil Saju wrote: >> It would be helpful if you could attach the build file along with the mail. >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Rhino<rhi...@sympatico.ca> >> To: ant-user<user@ant.apache.org> >> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:47 PM >> Subject: Target Execution Sequence >> >> >> I'm having a perplexing problem and I'm hoping someone here can help me >> understand whatever I'm missing. I was moderately fluent with Ant at one >> point but I've been away from it a while and have probably just forgotten >> some fundamental that I need to know. >> >> Here's the deal. I have an Ant script that is displaying an AntForm. The >> AntForm contains some checkboxes that are supposed to make me keep or omit >> three particular paragraphs in a document I am writing later in the script. >> Basically, I use the AntForm to set specific booleans, one for each of the >> three paragraphs, in a Java source file to true or false. Then, I generate >> the document with a program that I've written and that program either writes >> the specified paragraphs or omits them based on the values of the booleans. >> At least, that's what's SUPPOSED to happen. >> >> In reality, the booleans are being seen by the program that generates the >> document as true regardless of what has been done with the AntForm. >> Therefore, all three special paragraphs always appear in the document even >> when I've asked for some or all of them to be omitted. >> >> This baffles me because I actually display the contents of the Java source >> file to myself in the Ant script before and after the execution of the >> program that generates the document and the values of the three booleans and >> they have the correct values. For instance, I can set the three booleans to >> false, true and false respectively via the AntForm and that's exactly how >> they appear in the Java source file just before I generate the document. >> (Then I reset the values to their defaults (all three true) then display >> them to myself and they are all true.) However, when I write the values of >> the booleans within the program that is generating the document, they are >> invariably all true, even if they have been set to different values. >> >> I don't understand why I'm getting this misbehaviour. >> >> My working theory is that Ant is NOT executing the tasks within the script >> in the expected order. When I add the -verbose and -debug parameters to the >> Ant Build, I see something that the task that displays the AntForm is done >> in its proper sequence, namely first within the script. However, the tasks >> that are to be executed to change the values of the booleans are NOT >> executed immediately after the AntForm is displayed but after the compile of >> the Java code. The script is displaying the AntForm and letting me check the >> checkboxes as I like, then compiling the code and ONLY THEN actually editing >> the source file to set some of the booleans to false. I think this explains >> why the switches are always seen as true by the document-generating program: >> the generator is simply not getting the edited version of the source file. >> >> Can anyone confirm that my theory makes sense? Or, if it doesn't, suggest a >> better explanation? If I'm on the right track, what is it that I'm not >> understanding about the execution sequences of tasks within targets? I had >> assumed that each task within a target would be executed before tasks in >> other targets were started.... >> >> -- >> Rhino >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > -- Rick Genter rick.gen...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
