I'm not sure if this is what you want, but you can pass properties from
Ant script to Ant script - most ways of calling an Ant script pass
properties from the parent to the child by default, and you can use
"inheritall='true'" otherwise. I load "webtest.xml" once to define all
the webtest stuff in my Ant test harness, and then that test harness
calls the tests. The tests themselves don't need to include the webtest
stuff at all - but that means that you can't run the tests individually
(because they'll be missing the webtest definitions). Hope that helps.
Rob Manthey wrote:
(I'll probably be corrected shortly, but I think this is what Marc is
getting at ...)
This line (may have been slightly modified by me for my local
conditions) must appear somewhere for webtest to work:
<taskdef file="${canoowebtest.home}/webtestTaskdefs.properties"/>
Anyway, each time it is included it instantiates a bunch of resources
from the sounds of it and so it should only be run once per set of
tests. I guess this means wrapping it in some sort of conditional,
but I have at the top of each file, so that's why (?) I accumulate
memory usage when I hit "ant all" as the jvm is created once per ant
session, but the webtest taskdef is called for every file.
What is the optimal way to have the taskdef declared for each file,
but so that it only gets called once if that file is referenced by
wrapper files? Such as:
<ifStep description="Run Taskdef Once"
unless="${taskdefLoaded}=='true'">
<taskdef file="${canoowebtest.home}/webtestTaskdefs.properties"/>
<property name="taskdefLoaded" value="true" />
</ifStep>
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