Provide ant task to retrieve information from published ivy modules
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Key: IVY-839
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-839
Project: Ivy
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Ant
Affects Versions: 2.0.0-beta-2
Environment: Using ivy from ant.
Reporter: David Maplesden
Fix For: 2.0-RC1
I was looking for a way to retrieve some of the information that is included in
an {{ivy.xml}} file for a published module when using {{ant}}.
The {{findrevision}} task allows you to retrieve the latest revision for a
given module, but doesn't expose any of the other information that is available
about the module.
The {{info}} task allows you to get at the information in an {{ivy.xml}} file
but only works on local files, it doesn't allow you to retrieve the same
information from a published module.
I had a quick look at the corresponding source code for these tasks
({{org.apache.ivy.ant.IvyInfo}} and {{org.apache.ivy.ant.IvyFindRevision}}) and
it appears relatively easy to merge them so that the {{info}} task can run
against either a local file or a repository module specified by the
organisation, module and revision pattern (in the same way as with the
{{findrevision}} task).
Doing this would provide better functionality and make the {{findrevision}}
task obsolete.
I will try implementing this now myself and provide a patch if I am successful
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