Sathyanarayana V. wrote:
Hi All,
Recently, as part of automating my project builds, I have used CruiseControl along with Ant. Surprisingly, I didn't find any task to build/compile all the subprojects of a project. My purpose was to have the compile time errors of all the subprojects as part of automated build report. The 'ant' task will stop building as soon as one subproject fails. I tried using java/exec tasks with 'failonerror ' attribute as false, but the problem with this approach is that build status of subprojects is not available to the main build process and resulting Total build successful though subprojects are failing in-between.
So, I have written new task called 'ants' and used for my automated builds. This task internally uses 'ant' only. What I would like to know is: Can I post this task of mine to apache or Is there any existing task/workaround available for the above required behavior.
Thanks in advance Sathya
Hi Sathya,
thanks for letting us know about your new task 'ants'. In ant 1.6.0 we have the <subant/> task which can process a number of ant files, and can run with failonerror="false". The only thing is that it does not have a mechanism to report back to the main project which subprojects have failed. Maybe the way of recording which projects have failed would be with a custom listener.
Otherwise, if you use ant-contrib, you can use <for/> or <foreach/> to do iterations, and <try/> <catch/> to catch build exceptions.
Another possibility would be that you promote your sub-projects to projects and build each of them with gump, another Apache tool (http://jakarta.apache.org/gump/).
I do not know whether you can then combine gump and CruiseControl or whether this is an overkill.
Cheers,
Antoine
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