I was surprised today to observe that the ivy:info task can mutate Ant
properties, which are supposedly immutable.
In this snippet of Ant code, I hardcode some Ant properties. After a
call to ivy:info, these properties have changed, which should not occur
(as far as I understand).
Can anyone explain what's going on here?
<target name="ivy-mutability" depends="ivy-load-commonsettings">
<property name="ivy.organisation" value="foo.bar"/>
<property name="ivy.module" value="mutant"/>
<property name="ivy.revision" value="9.8"/>
<property name="ivy.status" value="beta"/>
<echo message="pre-info organization: ${ivy.organisation}"/>
<echo message="pre-info module: ${ivy.module}" />
<echo message="pre-info revision: ${ivy.revision}" />
<echo message="pre-info status: ${ivy.status}" />
<ivy:info settingsRef="module-settings"
file="${module.output.subdir}/ivy.xml" />
<echo message="post-info organization: ${ivy.organisation}" />
<echo message="post-info module: ${ivy.module}" />
<echo message="post-info revision: ${ivy.revision}" />
<echo message="post-info status: ${ivy.status}" />
</target>
This is the output:
test-mutability:
[echo] pre-info organization: foo.bar
[echo] pre-info module: mutant
[echo] pre-info revision: 9.8
[echo] pre-info status: beta
[ivy:info] :: Ivy 2.0.0-rc1 - 20080916082609 ::
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ ::
:: loading settings :: file =
c:\allworkspaces\ebiz-1.6-rmtest\ivy-template\ivy-settings-common.xml
[echo] post-info organization: com.mycompany.myorg
[echo] post-info module: mymodule
[echo] post-info revision: 3.0-dev1
[echo] post-info status: integration
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