The ant-contrib project has a <trycatch> task. I have not used it, but you might check it out to see if it meets your needs.
http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/ Look under "Other tasks" for the trycatch task documentation. -Rob Anderson > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean A. Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:50 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: don't fail build on failed task > > > I am using ant to build and deploy > a webapp to tomcat. I have a deploy > task and an undeploy task. The deploy > task fails if the app is already deployed. > The undeploy task fails if the app is > not already deployed. I find myself > constantly typing: ant undeploy deploy > which works fine if the build goes ok. > If the build does not go ok I have to > type: ant deploy > since it already removed the app. > I would like to make the undeploy > task report failure to output but not > really fail. That way, I can have the > deploy task depend on the undeploy > task and simplify things. If this is in > the documentation, I cannot find it. > > Here is my undeploy task: > > <target name="undeploy" > description="Undeploy web application" depends="init"> > <undeploy url="${local.tomcat.url}" > username="${local.tomcat.username}" > password="${local.tomcat.password}" > path="${local.tomcat.path}"/> > </target> > > Any takers? > Dean Hoover > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
