Hi,
I can't recall if this has been rejected before but I going to propose it
again ;)
Error handling in ant sucks - I have come across two today places where I
have really wanted better handling of that sort of thing. Sometimes tasks
throw errors that you want to respond to (ie send a mail) others throw errors
you can ignore (ie maudit) and in many cases you want to cleanup after you
regardless fo success or not (delete that null.tmp!).
Anyways I prototyped something like this for ant2 and while it hasn't been
tested in all the places I wanted to use it - I did really like it in the few
places I have tested it. Basically you have as task container that looks like
the following. it also behaves in exactly the same way that java languaghe
try-catch-finally constructs work.
It would look like
<tbody>
<try>
<echo message="About to fail"/>
<fail message="Failing!"/>
</try>
<catch>
<echo message="the task failed but we are ignoring it"/>
</catch>
<finally>
<echo message="Cleaning up after myself ..."/>
</finally>
</tbody>
And would result in something like
About to fail
the task failed but we are ignoring it
Cleaning up after myself ...
The term <tbody/> sucks and I have tried to think of a nice name for it. I
tried a few - I believe I committed seomething like "try-catch" into myrmidon
but maybe a better name for task would be <tryCatchFinally/> or something ?
Thoughts?
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Pete
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