RE: how to reference a command line argument inside ant script

[HALIM,SALMAN (HP-NewJersey,ex2)]

a while ago, i had the same question.  i ended up writing a small main class
that would replace all command-line arguments following an empty - with args
of the form -Dcom.arg<n>="value" where <n> was a number starting with 0.  it
would create this as a String[] and just launch the original ant class (you
could also do a -Dcom.argc="<number of arguments>" if you wanted to).  this
worked quite well.

i lost the class in a hard disk crash, but it really wasn't very hard to
write at all.

salman.

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell G. Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:04 PM
To: ant-user
Subject: RE: how to reference a command line argument inside ant script


I was actually hoping for something more user friendly.  I'm trying to get
our QA dept to get the source for a project from cvs and then build it.  The
build part is easy with ant, but the cvs stuff I always seem to have to
resort to yet another script that I have to maintain on 3 platforms.

Oh, well...


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 14:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how to reference a command line argument inside ant script


Doh.  I think I need to get to bed earlier.  Here is what it really
should be

ant cvsrev -Drevision-name="build-24".

Also, revision-name in the target should be replaced with ${revision-name}

Jonathan Carlson wrote:

> You'd use
>
> ant mytarg -Dcvsrev="build-24".
> Then revision-name would be replaced with ${revision-name}
>
> Jonathan Carlson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Russell G. Wells wrote:
>
>> I want to create a target in my build.xml file for getting a tagged
>> revision
>> of code out of CVS, with the user specifying the revision name on the
>> command line.
>> i.e.
>>     ant cvsrev build-24
>>
>> My question is how do I access the argument "build-24" within the
>> build.xml
>> file.
>>
>>
>> <!-- check for required environment variable prior to doing anything -->
>> <target name="init.cvs" unless="osEnv.CVSROOT">
>>     <fail message="To use ANT CVS you must have CVSROOT defined"/>
>> </target>
>>
>> <target name="cvsrev" depends="init.cvs">
>>     <!-- cvs -q checkout -P -r revision-name module -->
>>     <cvs command="-q checkout -P -r revision-name ${ant.project.name}"/>
>> </target>
>>
>> What should be "revision-name" be replaced with?
>>
>> ----------------
>> Russell G. Wells
>> Bear River Associates, Inc.
>> email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>
>
>
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