--- Jeffrey A Kenward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best way to invoke a task from another task?
>
> For instance, I'm trying to write a task to search for build files
> further down in the build tree and invoke the ANT task on it once it's
> found.
You could use the newly submitted (but not committed) <foreach> task (I
picked up Chris Greenlee's updated version) -- see the ant-dev mail
archives at message:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=98842104504477&w=2
It's designed to do <antcall>'s, which means running a target in the
current build-file, but that target could do an <ant>. For example:
<target name="recurse">
<taskdef name="foreach"
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.ForeachTask"/>
<foreach target="runAnt">
<param name="file">
<fileset dir="." includes="**/build.xml"/>
</param>
</foreach>
</target>
<target name="runAnt">
<ant antfile="${file}"/>
</target>
This will run the default target in each build.xml file in every
subdirectory of the current directory. If you want to run a specific
target in the sub-project build-files, include the "target" attribute in
the <ant> task (include nested <property>'s if you want to override
property values in the sub-project build-files).
Note: You'll need to pick up the latest Ant.java from CVS, as apparently
the <foreach> task hits a bug that was in the 1.3 version, which has since
been fixed in CVS.
Diane
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