hi ivan, It's for user friendliness purpose, typically: Hello user: here are all the buildable projects, choose the projects to build blabla...
-----Original Message----- From: Ivan Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/14/2005 6:29 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: RE: retrieving project names with subant Hello, it just occurred to me that ant build scripts are XML files (I am a genius, aren't I :) ), so you can use <xmlproperty>[1] to extract the name attribute of project node: <project name="main" default="main" basedir="."> <target name="main"> <echo>Main project name is ${ant.project.name}</echo> <subant antfile="sub.xml" target="sub" buildpath="${basedir}"/> <xmlproperty file="sub.xml" semanticAttributes="true" keepRoot="yes"/> <echo>${project.name}</echo> </target> </project> So it is possible, but clumsy - for example you have to iterate over the fileset using <for>[2]. By the way, in 90% of the cases projects' names are just for user convenience and are not so important for the build process. The other 10% where they are important for the build process itself concerns <import>[3] task. So why do you need them? Regards Ivan [1]http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/xmlproperty.html [2]http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/for.html [3]http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/import.html --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thanks ivan. > I was aware of the ${ant.project.name}property, but > indeed i want the names of all sub projects in my > main ant files that iterates through these projects. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Ivanov > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu 7/14/2005 5:34 PM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: retrieving project names with subant > > Hello, > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > hello gentle people; > > is there a way to retrieve the names of the > project > > being run when using subant? > > The name of the currenr project is stored in the > built-in property ant.project.name. So you can use > something like this: > <project name="main" default="main" basedir="."> > <target name="main"> > <echo>Main project name is > ${ant.project.name}</echo> > <subant antfile="sub.xml" target="sub" > buildpath="${basedir}"/> > </target> > </project> > > <project name="sub" default="sub"> > <target name="sub"> > <echo>Sub project name is > ${ant.project.name}</echo> > </target> > </project> > > But if you want in your main file the names of all > sub > projects, it would be harder. > > Regards > Ivan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > This message is for the designated recipient only > and may contain privileged, proprietary, or > otherwise private information. If you have received > it in error, please notify the sender immediately > and delete the original. Any other use of the email > by you is prohibited. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.
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