No, this is currently not possible. <subant> uses <ant> behind the scene's, and doesn't access the created project. Now, I've also hacked <antreturn> that works for my own purpose, and does indeed get access to the child project thru devious means, so in theory it could cache the child projects, so I just don't think it's very advisable...
On the other hand, my goal with <antreturn> was to get back properties and references from the child build, so you could get back up a property set in a.xml, and feed it back down to c.xml and later to a.xml to avoid reprocessing something. My own version of <subant> allows passing down a <propertyset>, but I guess one could also have a return <propertyset> by merging the <antreturn> functionality. All this sounds very hackish though, even to me ;-) Even my current use of <antReturn> I find hackish, but without the ability to use Ant's own digester-like XML to Java engine, I find easier to call another Project and extract what I need out of it, rather than coding from scratch the info I need about of a separate non-Ant (data-type) file. I hope I'm not too off base vis-à-vis your question. --DD > -----Original Message----- > From: Knut Wannheden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: can <subant> reuse Projects? > > Hi, > > Up until now I've been using my own <subant> like task. But now that Ant > 1.6 doesn't seem too distant anymore I'd like to integrate with <subant>. > > There's one thing I'm wondering about: Can <subant> reuse the same Project > object corresponding to a buildfile in multiple calls? The reason that > I'm > askin this is that I think it would be nice if a target's dependencies > were > only resolved once. Consider the following case: > > a.xml > ^ > / \ > b.xml c.xml > ^ ^ > \ / > d.xml > > where I in b.xml and c.xml use <subant> to invoke a target i a.xml. And > in > d.xml i use <subant> to invoke a target in b.xml and c.xml. Now if both > b.xml and c.xml invoke the same target "foo" in a.xml, then I'd only want > the dependencies of "a:foo" to be resolved once. > > Is this currently possible with <subant> or would it be possible to add > this > behaviour? > > -- > knut --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
