Nick,
If you want to call a target within the same project. Use Ant-contrib's
runtarget task
(http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/index.html). Since the
call is in the same project, any property you set in the called target
is also visible to caller
If you want AntCall like behavior, then consider using AntCallBack task
in http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/index.html
--Vishal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, you saying I am being silly? ;-)
I was expecting different behaviour - but what you say makes perfect
sense...
Thanks for sorting that out...
-Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Goktepe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 July 2006 00:13
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Am I being a silly - or is there an antcall bug?
This is not a bug. Properties that are set during an antcall are not
passed back to the calling target, but properties do go the other
direction as the called target inherits them from its parent. Therefore,
when target2 calls dependency1, run_once_target.done is set, but is lost
when control returns to the calling script. So when target2 then calls
dependency2, run_once_target.done is still undefined again.
Properties that are set during the run of a dependent target do stick
around. This is why the message only appears once when you run target1
and target3.
If you need properties to return from the called target, you need to
write them to a file and then load them from the calling script.
-Andrew
On 7/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would expect that when calling all targets below (target1, target2
&
target3) the "run_once_target" would get called only... once.
However, its not so.
With "target2", it gets called twice.
Is that a bug?
Doesn't seem to matter if I set inheritall="true" or not....
ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005
-Nick
<project name="moo" default="target1">
<target name="run_once_target" unless="run_once_target.done">
<echo message="## running run_once_target"/>
<property name="run_once_target.done" value="true"/>
</target>
<target name="dependancy1" depends="run_once_target">
<echo message="## running dependancy1"/>
</target>
<target name="dependancy2" depends="run_once_target">
<echo message="## running dependancy2"/>
</target>
<target name="target1" depends="dependancy1, dependancy2">
<echo message="## running target1"/>
</target>
<target name="target2">
<echo message="## running target2"/>
<antcall target="dependancy1"/>
<antcall target="dependancy2"/>
</target>
<target name="target3" depends="run_once_target">
<echo message="## running target3"/>
<antcall target="dependancy1"/>
<antcall target="dependancy2"/>
</target>
</project>
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