Yes, thank you; you have, of course, defined a new goal that governs whether
the old one is executed, which is a perfectly valid approach. I was hoping
for a wee bit more, namely the ability to not only override a goal but to
gain access to the overridden goal from the overriding goal.
Thanks,
Laird
On 2/7/06, Henry S. Isidro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Laird Nelson wrote:
>
> >I see. So suppose there is a plugin goal named world:destroy and I only
> >want to run it if the property evil.dictator is set. How would I do
> this?
> >I don't want it to be an error if someone tries to run it without said
> >property; I just want to silently do nothing. On the other hand, if that
> >property is set, then I would like to run the plugin goal.
> >
> >>From where I sit this seems to be impossible.
> >
> >
> This is just from the top of my head so I haven't tried it but I think
> this will work:
>
> <goal name="world:destroy">
> <if test="${evil.dictator}">
> <!-- destroy world -->
> </if>
> **</goal>
>
> If the property evil.dictator is set to "true" then the world is
> destroyed when the goal is run.
>
> HTH,
> Henry
>
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