Hi Nico,
I wrote a Task as you suggested. But it turns out that this information is
not available -- even to the Project itself. We can find the current target
but not the driving target. (i.e. if I execute "ant sometarget" then I would
like to get at "sometarget" somehow)
I downloaded the Ant source, and as far as I could tell from reading it,
this information is not explicitly kept anywhere during the build process.
It seems like this would be a nice enhancement for Ant2??
Cheers,
-- Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nico Seessle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 1:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: getting the value of the Target
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 7:47 AM
> Subject: getting the value of the Target
>
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I would like to know how to get the value of the incoming
> target. (i.e for
> > "ant clean", I want "clean"). I have searched the -debug
> output for such a
> > property, and I read the section on built-in properties in
> the manual. But
> I
> > don't see it. Is it possible???
> >
> > What I am trying to do is execute a target conditionally
> based on the
> > incoming target name. So that I can skip some intermediate step in a
> build.
> > Is there a workaround??
> >
>
> Even if there was access to such a property you can't perform
> some action
> based on the value of a property - only based on it's existence.
> If you want to do something based on the value of a property
> you need to
> write your own task. If you are writing your own task you may
> get access to
> the currently executing target thru your task
> (this.getOwningTarget().getName()).
>
> Nico
>
>
