I can't see a lot of difference between the <ant>
and <antcall> tags. It looks like they provide very similar
functionality. Regardless, my take from reading the docs
of the <ant> tags leads me to believe that it does not pass
anything back.
Here is a code snip that will create and write
the property file and value(s).
<mkdir dir="${baseTarget}" />
<touch file="${baseTarget}/label.properties" />
<propertyfile file="${baseTarget}/label.properties" comment="${BLD_LABEL}">
<entry key="BLD_LABEL" value="${BLD_LABEL}" />
</propertyfile>
Here is the code that would read the properties back out.
<property file="${baseTarget}/label.properties"/>
The value of ${baseTarget} is set before using <antcall>
to call target.
- Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Jocham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 16:53
To: Ant Users List
Subject: RE: passing of properties from a child ant task to its parent
> If you are using <antcall> the answer is no.
>
> Targets executed via <antcall> have their own
> environment
> and property space and anything modified or set is
> NOT
> passed backed or returned to the "calling" target.
I use: <ant antfile="build.xml" target="test.run"/>
> I have seen <propertyfile> used to write out the
> updated
> values of properties and then when execution is
> returned
> to the calling target it opens the property file and
> reads
> the updated and new values.
>
Can you point me to these examples.
Thanks,
Ralph
> - Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Jocham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 16:21
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: passing of properties from a child ant task
> to its parent
>
>
> Hi,
> I have 2 differnt build files -- one is a general
> one
> (build.xml) and the other is used by CruiseControl
> (ci-buld.xml). The ci-build.xml mainly uses the
> build.xml file with <ant> calls. This works fine but
> now I have the following situation. The targets to
> run
> junit tests are in build.xml. They are set to create
> a
> propery (junit.failure, junit.error) if a failure or
> error occurs. This happens in the bounds of the
> build.xml. When I test with <fail if="junit.error"
> message="error"/> in the ci-build.xml it is not set,
> though an error has happened. My question is, are
> created properties from the child ant task being
> passed back to the parent task???
>
> Thanks,
> Ralph
>
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