Good-God man! That's hideous!
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From: "Geoff Meakin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 4:33 AM
Subject: RE: ?? A Clean-Up Task that Always Runs ??
> Here's a really ugly way to do it, assuming you want to contain
the whole
> thing within ANT- but see comments at the bottom-
>
> Existing build file #1.
> Write your cleanupTask in a different build file (#2). Write a
task in #2
> which calls the specified task
> in the ant build file #1, (using <ant>) after which it calls
your
> cleanupTask (using <antcall>).
> Call ant against build file #2 instead of build file #1.
> Note you could do these in the same buildfile and use <antcall>
all the
> time, except- since you want
> cleanupTask to *always* be executed, no matter what tasks are
specified at
> the commandline, it gives
> you the advantage of creating stub tasks in #2 (equivalents of
your #1
> tasks) which e.g. set a property
> and then call cleanupTask- which you couldn't do in just one
buildfile.
> Hey, I said it was really ugly!!! example below.
>
> #1
> <task name="myTask1">
> do whatever...
> </task>
>
> <task name="myTask2">
> do whatever...
> </task>
>
> #2
> <task name="default">
> <property name="stub" value="default_task_in_#1"><and><equals
> arg1="${stub}" arg2="$${stub}"/></and></property>
> <ant antfile="#1.xml" target="${stub}"/>
> <antcall target="cleanupTask"/>
> </task>
>
> <task name="cleanupTask">
> do cleanup...
> </task>
>
> <task name="myTask1">
> <property name="stub" value="myTask1"/>
> <antcall target="default"/>
> </task>
>
> <task name="myTask2">
> <property name="stub" value="myTask2"/>
> <antcall target="default"/>
> </task>
>
> ===
> If you dont want the horrible stub/ duplication of tasks, you
could pass the
> flag -Dtask=myTask1, instead, and
> modify the #2 buildfile accordingly, but that depends on your
needs.
>
> Though to be quite honest, I'd just create an alias/shell
script/batch
> script at the command-line level and then call the cleanupTask
as the last
> part of the alias, rather than all this horrible duplication,
as it seems
> the
> most sensible method unless you're using ANT integrated in some
IDE or
> whatever.
>
> Sorry, that wasn't a whole lot of help :)
>
> -Geoff
>
>
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