Ken,
Curiously, why aren't you using a BuildListener to accomplish this instead?
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: TryCatchFinallyTask ?
> I'm certainly in favor of something like this.
>
> In my case, I still want the build to fail, but I
> want to send an e-mail to a text pager. Right now, I
> do this by doing an 'echo' to a file before a
> task starts, and a 'delete' of that file when the
> task finishes. After the build, I run Ant again
> with a different XML file that uses 'available'
> to find any of these temp files. If it finds any, it
> sends the e-mail. Crude, but it works...
>
> I'd much rather have the build do it's own thing...
>
> Conor MacNeill wrote:
> >
> > Peter Donald wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > I probably would have if it had been implemented as an antcall rather
than as
> > > a container ;)
> >
> > I quite like the idea. I agree that error handling is pretty poor. We
> > can see that from the proliferation of failonerror attributes which have
> > been growing. People do want to continue running their builds when
> > things blow up. This would make most failonerror attributes obsolete,
> > though I don't think I'd suggest deprecating them :-)
> >
> > Of course, the same argument could be used for the "if" and "unless"
> > attributes and we may be on a slippery slope there (slippery slopes can
> > be fun though).
> >
> > You mentioned antcall, but the I'd say of of the most common patterns is
> > going to be:
> >
> > <try>
> > <antcall target="main"/>
> > </try>
> > <catch>
> > <echo message="Aw, my build broke"/>
> > </catch>
> >
> > <tbody> doesn't really work for me. I thought of <checked>. The other
> > possibility might be a structure like this
> >
> > <try>
> > <tasks>
> > <echo>
> > </tasks>
> > <catch>
> > <echo>
> > </catch>
> > <finally>
> > <echo>
> > </finally>
> > </try>
> >
> > Whaddayareckon?
> >
> > Conor
> >
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